SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) asked Cuban officials and the military this Monday not to participate in repressive actions against Cubans.
“To the Cuban officials of different levels and responsibilities who remain on the island, we continue to ask that they not contribute to the serious repression that Cuba is experiencing. Abstaining would be a first step to combat injustice, whether in a court, in a prison, or in a neighborhood or workplace,” wrote the OCDH.
The statement comes amid an increase in cases of regime officials at different levels and structures leaving the country.
This migratory wave “demonstrates how little credibility there is in that system, in that project, that not even those who participate in it every day trust anymore and, therefore, are looking for a way out,” he told Martí News Yaxis Cires, director of Strategy of the organization.
The regime’s repressors have reached – or attempted to reach – the United States and other countries, after having accused and convicted peaceful protesters or having been directly involved in cases of repression, the OCDH highlighted.
The text also urges democratic governments, especially the United States and Spain, to carry out exhaustive investigations into these repressors to prevent them from entering these countries.
“It is not fair that those who cause suffering to other Cubans, who participate in corruption at high levels of the State structure or who prolong the agonizing situation that the country is experiencing, have the doors of democracies open,” the organization said.
Recently, several cases have emerged of former Cuban officials who have tried to reach the United States with humanitarian parole or through political asylum across the border.
Former Villa Clara judge Melody González Pedraza, who served as president of the Popular Municipal Court of Encrucijada (Villa Clara), requested political asylum at the Tampa International Airport, according to reports Martí News.
As reported by lawyer Santiago Alpízar to Martí Newsin her first hearing in the US judicial system, Melody González Pedraza was instructed to master hearing on July 31, at 1:00 pm, to demonstrate the “merits” for which she would deserve to be welcomed in that country.
Rosabel Roca Sampedro, a Camagüey prosecutor who demanded harsh prison sentences for protesters of the July 11, 2021 protests, is seeking asylum in the United States.
The 42-year-old woman made an appointment through the CBPOne application to immigrate to the United States.
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2024-06-20 14:32:29
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