EFE photoAbout 40 Cuban dissidents Monday announced the formation of a new — and illegal — human rights group to campaign for the release of political prisoners, according to Agence France Press and other foreign news agencies.
"We are going to work to strengthen the internal dissidence, to monitor and denounce all the human rights violations commited in Cuba," Juan Carlos González, a lawyer and former political prisoner, said at a news conference Monday. Among the group's goals would be to "re-inforce" the independent press, González said.
Former political prisoner Margarito Broche, 48, was elected president of the new council.
"We are going to work for the freeing of political prisoners, a general amnesty for all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and for the respect of human rights in Cuba," said Broche, who was arrested during the "black spring" of 2003 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was later released because of poor health.
Also elected as a director of the new group was Jorge Luis García Pérez, also known as "Antúnez," who was recently released from prison after serving more than 17 years.
Recent Comments