Publicado el 07-30-2010
Political Prison and
Human Rights in Cuba
Political prisons are contrary to human rights because political crime is always identified with an arbitrary and anti-democratic mentality. To this must be added that in Cuba, evidently, political prison entails extreme arbitrariness that implies torture, beginning with the size of the cell and the open hole on the floor to take care of the physiological needs of the individual confined to that cell that often is as small as a double bed. This has been denounced on many occasions and, especially, in recent days. Of course, that is why the totalitarian Marxist-Leninist tyranny of brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro does not allow an inspection by the international agencies that defend human rights.
This type of torture reaches dramatic and terrible proportions. Perhaps many people abroad might think that these are more or less regular prisons, although confinement might be arbitrarily imposed. But it goes way beyond the arbitrariness of violating the freedom of an individual, incorporating to the punishment characteristics that imply torture because of the environment and details having to do with the place where the sentence is being served. This is day and night torture for the political prisoner who has been subjected by force to this type of prison imposed by the totalitarian tyranny that has been oppressing the Cuban people for more than fifty-one years.
If in Cuba did not exist this type of violation of human rights perhaps there would not be so many restrictions and impediments for the agents of international agencies in charge of defending human rights to inspect in situ, inside the island, the condition of the prisons. Of course, the other numerous violations of human rights can not be combated in Cuba because of the fierce activities of the authorities entrenched there.
When speaking about political prisoners, a condition that in itself is contrary to human rights, it is important to take into consideration that the prison system in Cuba is extremely cruel. Human rights in the island that Martí dreamt would be free are derided by the totalitarian tyranny in force for more than half a century.
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