At least 23 murders and 307 acts of repression took place in Cuba in Novembersays the Cubalex organization's report published on Wednesday.
This month the Cubalex monitoring team recorded 307 repressive acts, a total of 719 violationsdistributed in 46 repression categories.
According to Cubalex CEO Laritza Diversent, “The report shows that the patterns of human rights violations we identified are persistent. It's the eleventh month of the year and there is no improvement. This deserves special attention from the international community”.
According to the lawyer the country is “on the threshold, if not already in a humanitarian crisis”.with food shortages, increased inflation and violence.”
232 people (78 women and 154 men) were identified as victims of these violations.
At the organizational level, most victims were concentrated among the Ladies in White, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu), and the Opposition Movement for a New Republic (MONR), although most of the repressed individuals are not affiliated with any civil society organization.
As usual, Political prisoners were the most oppressed. Of the 307 repressive incidents recorded in November, 147 involved situations in which people were deprived of their liberty.
November was a month of intense political activity by the Cuban regime; However, the surveillance devices #Cubalex recorded a continued increase in repression. https://t.co/mIn9FyBSgx
— Cubalex (@CubalexDDHH) December 20, 2023
The NGO registered 23 complaints from prisons involving verbal and/or physical violence against inmates by guards or ordinary prisoners on their duty, 18 involving threats or coercion, 17 related to solitary confinement of prisoners, another 17 involving degrading treatment, etc. 20 detentions in Isolation cells, including torture practices such as B. leaving the prisoner naked and without drinking water for days.
Added to this is poor and poor nutrition and overcrowding, which contributes to the spread of disease and leads to confrontations between the prison population. All these violations, together with the poor functioning of the judicial mechanisms, were the reason for this In November, at least 14 prisoners went on hunger strike.
In addition to the death of political prisoner Luis Barrios, two other deaths in custody involving suicide by hanging were recorded during the month. One of the cases involved the detainee named Omar (or Osmani) in the Kilo 8 prison and another involved the death under suspicious circumstances of 28-year-old Joelvis Viscay Hernández, who was detained in the Guantánamo operations unit.
Regarding the increase in violence and insecurity on the island, the organization announced recorded 23 murders, four of which were femicides, and another 33 acts of violence These include robberies, assaults, attacks on members of the LGBTI+ community and violent attacks.