New claim of the Cuban dictatorship for political prisoners: they demand that they not be expatriates like in Nicaragua

The release of detainees in Cuba for events like those of 2021 It should not lead to “forced expatriation” as in NicaraguaCuban human rights organizations warned on Monday.

He Cuban Observatory for Human Rights, Justice 11J and Cubalex They said in a manifesto that “the recent release of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners and their immediate deportation to the United States has alerted Cuban civil society to a similar ‘solution’ in the current context of the island.”

“The alert is prompted by conversations between the Cuban state and bodies such as the Catholic Church, the European Union (EU) and the government of the United States, which have expressed positions in in favor of the unconditional release of political prisonerssays the manifesto, released by the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights, based in Madrid.

The release of the demonstrators has become a key political issue in Cuba after the Nicaraguan precedent and the insistence on this issue by the United States, the European Union and the Vatican.

There possibility of release of prisoners protests against the Cuban regime is on the table in the context of a possible negotiation with the United States.

In this regard, these organizations recalled “precedents” such as the release and exile in 2010 of “the majority of political prisoners in the black springof 2003 as part of a negotiation process within the EU and in 2015 of 53 others imprisoned in this case in negotiations for the restoration of relations between Cuba and the United States.

Signatories to the manifesto cited that the UN Human Rights Council has denounced these “forced expatriations”, They described it as “a systematic practice in repressive governments” and warned that “Nicaraguan political prisoners did not participate in the negotiation process” and “were not informed that the condition of their liberation was the forced departure from their country”.

“No one, let alone in the inhuman conditions of deprivation of liberty in Cuban prisons, they can be forced to leave the country as a condition to obtain their release or their final release,” they said.

“Anyone negotiating with the Cuban state should demand guarantees that the person deprived of liberty will make the decision to leave the country without pressure from state security organs,” they added.

In addition, they demanded “the participation of persons deprived of liberty and their families in the process of negotiating their release”, as well as “minimum guarantees for those who decide freely and voluntarily to leave the country, such as facilities in the relocation process access to the legalization of their immigration status.

“We receive with hope the idea that they will be released, in any way possible,” they concluded.

(With information from EFE)

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