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At least ninety political prisoners remain incarcerated in Cuba’s jails, according to a new list compiled in Havana by the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
The Center for a Free Cuba today received a list of 90 current long-term prisoners held by the Communist authorities.
The regime claims that it released those political prisoners arrested during the “Black Spring” crackdown of 2003, most of whom were forced into exile in 2011.
“Apologists of the Cuban dictatorship are still heralding this banishment, which in itself was a violation of international law,” said CapitolHillCubans, a bipartisan pressure group:
Note that this doesn’t include the nearly 7,000 democracy activists that were arrested for shorter-periods throughout 2012. And these are only the ones that have been thoroughly documented.
Thus, the number of political prisoners in Cuba has actually increased — despite the banishment – since 2011. More “reform” you can’t believe in.
The Center for a Free Cuba is supported by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington-based democracy assistance group.
