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The coordinator of the Movimiento Cristiano Liberación (Christian Liberation Movement), Oswaldo Paya, denounced the detention of several members of the organization by state security agents.
In a statement, Paya said the detention occurred last weekend during a visit he made to various provinces. “A number of leaders of the movement were detained, including Agustin Cervantes and Jose Alba Castro. In addition, his family and his father-in-law, who is gravely ill with cancer, received harassing phone calls,” Paya said.
These incidents “reveal that the Cuban government is very concerned about Oswaldo Paya’s connections with…
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MESSAGE TO THE SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS FROM THE CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
FOR THE NEW WORLD, A NEW HOPE
We are not going to say “we are the voice of Cuba ,” but instead “give the people what is of the people, their own voice and their freedom”. That is the spirit of the 2009 Dialogue in which many Cubans, peaceful fighters for democracy, are currently participating and whose results will be proclaimed shortly.
There is no secret: We, Cubans, want peace, reconciliation among all of us, and friendship with all peoples. We want to build a…
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CNA
The president of the Christian Liberation Movement, Oswaldo Paya, has sent a message to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, calling on the body not to be accomplices of the Communist government “with its silence and its scandalous refusal to demand” respect for human rights in Cuba.
In an extensive message to the commission, Paya said even the General Assembly and many other institutions “harm the people of Cuba” by their silence in the face of little or no progress in the area of human rights on the island.
For this reason, he called on the Commission to ask the…
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Catholic News Agency
Carlos Paya, the representative in Spain for Cuban dissident group the Christian Liberation Movement, is criticizing the left in that country for supporting the Castro dictatorship in Cuba, despite the knowledge that human rights are violated on the island.
In statements to Cope.es, Paya asserted that the Spanish left “knows that that (regime) is a dictatorship.” The Cuban dissident also addressed those who doubt the severity of living in a country where freedom of expression is suppressed. “To those people I would say, Do you really know what goes on there?” he said.
Paya criticized the…
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By Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas | Coordinator of the Christian Liberation Movement
I live in Havana , Cuba , in a modest neighborhood called Cerro. When the first democratically-elected government was installed in Chile , the first Chilean Christian Democrats visited our country. They dared to contact us, we who from the inside were, and still are, engaged in the peaceful struggle for democracy and freedom in Cuba.
They brought us a message of hope. After living for 17 years under military rule, the Chilean people began to walk peacefully down the path of democracy and respect for human rights.…
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From Email received by Mr. Paya’s organization.
Once again, the Cuban government has violated my right to leave and return to Cuba . I was invited, along with my wife Ofelia, by the President of the European Parliament Mr. Hans-Gert Pöttering to participate in the commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Sakharov Prize from December 16-17 in Strasbourg France.
All of the documents, including Cuban passports, visas and others required by government regulations to authorize the visit, as well as the flight reservations, were arranged as stipulated by the Cuban government.
Again, the Cuban government has not wanted to…
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Email received from Mr. Paya’s organization:
We respectfully ask the General Secretariat of the United Nations to distribute this message to its Member States and to refer it to the General Assembly for its consideration, as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
To all Member States of the United Nations:
As Cubans and members of the human family, we are entitled to all the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Nevertheless, many of these fundamental rights and freedoms are not guaranteed by laws established in…
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NEW DAY FOR THE VARELA PROJECT, THE DEFINITIVE CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE IN CUBA
After almost five decades under an order of “no rights,” now, as the Cuban people approach the door of their future with uncertainty, the response of the group in power is to slam the door in their faces. Various factors are combining against the Cuban people:
- the propaganda that saturates life and tries to strangle understanding;
- the growing repression in all aspects of life, persecuting those who struggle peacefully and openly for their rights, even…
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Before the prisoners of the Cuban Spring had served the first six months of their unjust imprisonment, on October 3rd, 2003 we went to the offices of the National Assembly of People’s Power to ratify our petition for the Varela Project referendum. At that time, we presented the signatures of 14,384 citizens along with their full names, addresses and ID numbers on every card containing the complete text of the Varela Project.
Everything we did was identical to the first time, on May 10th, 2002, when we presented the signatures of 11,020 other citizens.…
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By email from Oswaldo Paya’s Christian Liberation Movement
With all due respect to the American side—as the country where many Cuban exiles have found a home and many with Cuban ancestry are sons and daughters of that nation by birth—I would like to discuss the Cuban dimension of the so-called Cuban-American family.
In the most complete and just sense of family, these Cuban-American families are an inseparable part of the Cuban family. For us, no one is “almost family” but simply family. When one part of the family suffers, regardless of where it may be, so does the other.
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