DECLARATION OF THE CUBA´S WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

DECLARATION OF THE CUBA´S WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS
2009-11-12.
René Gómez Manzano, President of the Cuba´s Working Group of the
International Society for Human Rights

(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- The Cuba's Working Group of the
International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) issues the present
Declaration in order to condemn the outrage perpetrated several days ago
by a group of police agents against the outstanding bloggers Yoani
Sánchez (who—as it is known—has received numerous important
international prizes) and Orlando Luis Pardo, as well as against several
friends of them.

As it has been informed, the authors of this outrage (several unknown
men dressed in civilian clothes) travelled in a Chinese-made black car,
in which they wanted to make Yoani and Orlando enter. The former, afraid
that the whole affair could be not a police action, but a kidnapping
perpetrated by gangsters, demanded the individuals either to identify
themselves or to show a detention order, which they didn't do; on the
contrary, they began to repeatedly hit and push both intellectuals, whom
they forced to enter the vehicle. Somewhat later, the men set them free.

This arbitrary detention took place in the context of a peaceful march
against violence, which several scores of citizens intended to make (and
which they indeed made several minutes later) in the central 23rd
Street. Taking into account that the main object of repression (as it
has already been said) were not the demonstrators, but the alternative
informers, our Working Group considers that here we are in face of a new
attack against the free emission of thought and against the freedom of
information.

The Cuba's Working Group of the ISHR energetically condemns this new
outrage of the totalitarian regime.

Havana, November 9, 2009

On behalf of the Executive Board of the Working Group:

René Gómez Manzano
President.
NOTE: Although the denounced facts had taken place several days before,
the present Declaration could be issued only on Monday 9, due to the
difficulties confronted here in Cuba to obtain independent information.
On the other hand, although the document—as it has been said—is dated
the 9th, only today—Thursday November 12—it has been possible to
broadcast it, and this because of the obstacles put by the totalitarian
regime in order to hinder their subjects' access to internet

DECLARATION OF THE CUBA´S WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR
HUMAN RIGHTS - Misceláneas de Cuba (12 November 2009)
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