This content was published on January 19, 2023 – 7:33 p.m. January 19, 2023 – 7:33 p.m
Madrid, January 19 (EFE)
The Madrid-based NGO’s annual report warned that “the human rights situation in Cuba remains extremely serious”: “Repression remains at worrying levels, giving the state new legal mechanisms to prevent or punish any expression of citizen discontent “.
The OCDH registered “at least 1,354 arbitrary arrests last year, including 832 women, the highest number since 2018”.
“More than 697 repressive measures against independent journalists were also documented, highlighting threats, surveillance, subpoenas and restrictions on mobile data and calls,” the document said.
Likewise, the NGO denounced “the consolidation of patterns such as repression beyond the opposition and civil society, which continues to escalate to populations not traditionally associated with the political opposition”.
The report highlights that “another dominant pattern” in 2022 was “the detention or forced exile of activists and opponents,” as well as the illegal detention or siege of activists and opponents in their homes to prevent them from exercising their rights .
“At least 1,447 detentions of activists, opponents or relatives of prisoners at their homes have been documented,” the OCDH said.
The report adds that Cuba ended 2022 with “at least 976 political prisoners or prisoners of conscience, most of them linked to the demonstrations of July 11 and 12, 2021 and subsequent protests.”
In this sense, the NGO called for the establishment of a “monitoring group” on the human rights situation in Cuba, composed of the USA, the European Union, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights, and that this group “act on the independent civil society listens”. EFE
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