The Center for a Free Cuba began advertising his campaign to have Cuba expelled from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
According to a press release, the above-mentioned organization announced on Monday that it had sent a letter with its petition to the authorities of the member countries of this council and to international organizations, backed by more than 600 signatures supporting its proposal.
The letter, which was sent to President Joe Biden of the United States and Prime Ministers Magdalena Andersson of Sweden and Justin Trudeau of Canada, as well as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, according to an EFE broadcast, was signed by human rights activists, former diplomats, academics and international personalities.
The organization also said that the intention is for this letter to reach all the rulers of the countries of the United Nations General Assembly.
The proposal to bar Cuba from the UN Human Rights Council is argued in the eighth point of that council’s founding charter, which states that if one of the members systematically violates human rights, it can be expelled, the executive director of the UN Human Rights Council Center for One said Free Cuba, John Suarez.
Presenting this campaign in Miami was attended by Katiuska Mustelier, sister of 11J protester Enrique Mustelier, 39, who was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for peacefully protesting against the regime.
“There is a critical situation in Cuba that requires international attention, there is no freedom, whoever opposes the government ends up in prison,” Mustelier told the aforementioned agency, who he also said had just been to the island to visit his brother in prison.
Cuba has been a member of the UN Human Rights Council since 2020 along with Russia, China and Pakistan.
This is what the Center for a Free Cuba is aiming for with its initiative Cuba is expelled from the UN Human Rights Council by the same procedure that determines the most recent Separation from Russia of the organism.
According to his petition, “Cuba does not deserve to sit on the Council and subvert international human rights standards. He deserves to be indicted by the International Criminal Court for his own human rights abuses.”
“Now is the time to clean up the dysfunctional Human Rights Council so that it can carry out its duties at this critical moment,” adds the petition on the Change.Org platform, which argues that the regime in “Havana is supporting the Russian invasion in Ukraine, repeated disinformation and persecution of Cubans on the island who are demonstrating their solidarity with the Ukrainian people.”
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