Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:
15 months later in the midst of a human rights crackdown in Cuba
We still remember and call for solidarity and an end to impunity
15 months later in the middle of a human rights crackdown in Cuba another sad anniversary is marked and the call for solidarity and an end to impunity in the suspicious deaths of human rights defenders Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas and Harold Cepero Escalante continues.
Statement of the Christian Liberation Movement over Facebook:
“Yesterday, December 22. 1 year and 5 months have passed since the unclear deaths of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero. We renew our call for an independent investigation, because it is just, necessary and also for an end to impunity. The Cuban people know it was not an accident, which contrasts with the regime‘s refusal to tell the truth, the complicity of other countries to hide and even coldness (including even the hot cloth or caressing equidistance of ears) …”
Ofelia Acevedo, Oswaldo Paya’s widow said the following in an interview with Univisión on December 22:
“They ordered the killing of Oswaldo Payá. State Security had threatened Oswaldo Payá with death for many years (…). Cuba is a totalitarian regime, where the government decides, the halls of power, every minute of life of the citizens. No one in Cuba would dares to do this, to do such a barbaric thing if he did not have the support of the highest levels of the Cuban government. The death of Oswaldo Payá is linked to the highest levels of the Cuban government, ” …
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