Who better to describe the tortures of the Castro dictatorship than Bertha Antúnez Pernet, whose family has survived the worst of the regime. Antúnez, the sister of famed Cuban dissent Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez," spoke earlier this week at a human rights event at the United Nations in New York.
Via Cuban Democratic Directorate:
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to provide my testimony as a human rights activist and as a defender of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in my country, Cuba. I have only been in exile for five months and for many years I struggled in Cuba for freedom for all Cuban political prisoners, and especially for the freedom of my brother, Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez”, and my struggle continues although I am off the Island. I would like to summarize the situation in my country with respect to human rights. In Cuba, hundreds of people serve prison sentences for their ideas, for thinking differently from the Castro brothers’ communist ideology. These people are arbitrarily detained, submitted to psychological and physical torture, and in many cases their families are harassed. They are tried without legal guarantees, and later confined in prisons, in most cases, hundreds of kilometers from their places of residence and under inhumane conditions. Fidel and Raúl Castro have said publicly that there are no political prisoners in Cuba and have affirmed that no one is tortured in Cuba. This is false and I say this from my own experience.
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