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Vigil in memory of Orlando Zapata Tamayo
Please join us for a vigil tomorrow (Thursday, 2/26/10) at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, DC, in memory of Orlando Zapata Tamayo. It will take place at 12:30 pm, 2630 16th Street, NW. Please send to anyone else that you think may be interested. Orlando Zapata Tamayo died today in a Havana atLongwordhere
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Prisoner of conscience on the brink of death
(02-23-10)The prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who takes several weeks on a hunger strike to demand their rights in prison, remains very high in the prison hospital Combinado del Este, on the outskirts of Havana. His mother, Lady in White, Reina Luisa Tamayo Danger, moved from eastern Cuba to Havana, where Radio Marti hasLongwordhere
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Cuba, prison for journalists
Raúl Castro’s government is one of the “worst jailers of journalists in the world” according to the report for the year 2009 of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which also said it are twenty-two informants who remain imprisoned in Cuba. The Committee, based in New York (CPJ for its acronym in English), also remarked thatLongwordhere
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Worsening prison conditions of the Cuban political prisoners
The beatings and ill-treatment of Cuban political prisoners are growing daily and the inhumane conditions in which they survive in Castro’s prisons. Cervantes Agustín García, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement in Santiago de Cuba and who is serving two years in arbitrary detention Aguadores in this province, “was violently removed from his galley, handcuffedLongwordhere
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Dozens of opponents beaten and arrested by police policy
The Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), who presides in Havana Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz, said in a statement Friday (2/5/10) that more than two dozen dissidents were beaten by the Castro regime’s political police, and 35 detainees, the past Feb. 3, following demonstrations in the city of Camaguey in central-eastern Cuba. The demonstrationLongwordhere
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Death of prisoner of conscience Orlando Zapata: An alarm call about the situation in Cuban jails
The Global Cuba Solidarity Movement condemns and regrets the death of Cuban activist Orlando Zapata Tamayo, after an 85-day hunger strike in defense of his rights as a political prisoner, and offers its condolences to his mother, Lady in White Reina Luisa Tamayo, and his remaining family members and friends. Zapata, detained and unjustly convictedLongwordhere
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November 12, 2009 Opposition leader Marta Beatriz Roque in critical health condition after forced imprisonment by the Cuban government.
The Cuban Government keeps 11 dissidents imprisoned in the house of adversary Vladimiro Roca in Havana, Cuba, without access to food or medication since October 10th.
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November 10, 2009 Violent attack against blogger Yoani Sánchez is a violation of human rights and evidence of the lack of freedom in Cuba
The Global Cuba Solidarity Movement vigorously condemns the attacks suffered by Yoani Sánchez and other Cuban bloggers at the hands of agents of State Security. Yoani uses only words to express her opinion and under no circumstances are these types of violent actions against her justified.