The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) reported on Wednesday that during the month of September, there were at least 570 arbitrary arrests for political reasons, a number greater than 517 arrests from the previous month.
The monthly report of the independent organization, headed by activist Elizardo Sanchez, special emphasis in the police assault that he suffered “the independent law firm of lawyers Cubalex, an office that has provided free legal help to countless people in need of protection and legal”. Julio Alfredo Ferrer, one of the workers of the center, was still in a high-security prison at the time of being drafted the report.
The text recalls, furthermore, that the Ladies in White continue to be the group most affected by this type of repression, as systematically collect the reports of the last years.
Two vice presidents of the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation have been affected by the arbitrariness of the Security of the State, according to the complaint by the center. Arturo Acosta Guillén prevented him from travelling to an international congress of human rights in south Africa, and Juan del Pilar Govern you fotocopiaron the documentation that led to a conference in Medellin, Colombia, in the international airport Jose Martí of Havana.
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