Cuba’s communist dictatorship has kicked off 2023 with 1,077 documented political prisoners, including children, and all of them are being subjected to torture inside Castro gulags. This is socialism in action.
Via Martí Noticias (my translation):
More than a thousand political prisoners in Cuba, all of them being tortured, according to report from Prisoners Defenders
Cuba closed out January with 1,077 political prisoners, all of which are victims of torture, according to the latest report by Prisoners Defenders.
The organization’s list includes 27 new political prisoners, most of which were arrested for protests that took place all across the island, but others for posting critical comments about the Cuban regime and defending human rights on social media.
Among the tortures being committed against the Cuban political prisoners, there is physical assault; solitary confinement; humiliations; degradation and verbal abuse; threats against their lives and the lives of their loved ones; loss of phone call rights; prohibition of visits by family; and sleep deprivation, among others.
The abuses were reported in a detailed study of 101 random cases reported by Prisoners Defenders to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT).
Among those imprisoned, there are 36 minors, 31 boys and 5 girls, with 30 serving sentences and another 6 awaiting trial. The organization stressed some of the minors are being held “in presumably juvenile facilities, but they are all penitentiaries that are euphemistically referred to as Reform Schools.”
Among the children, 17 are facing trial or have already been convicted of “sedition.”
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