Cuba has carried out 21 extrajudicial executions since July 2021, in accordance with a corporation

Protests within the United States in solidarity with Cuban protestersEuropa Press

400,000 Cubans have fled the island because the summer season of 2021The 2021 protests go away a minimum of 909 folks sentenced to jail, 773 folks nonetheless in custody and one other 84 have been “pressured into exile”

The group Archivo Cuba has denounced that the Cuban authorities have carried out 21 extrajudicial executions since July 2021. “Archivo Cuba has reviews of 21 extrajudicial executions as of July 2021. They are a part of the 4,374 murders attributed to the Cuban regime documented to this point (partial record) since January 1, 1959, of which 3,069 are executions with out due means of regulation. This determine doesn’t embrace hundreds extra deaths from different causes of a political nature,” the group mentioned in an announcement.

In addition, Archivo Cuba has defined that the Cuban authorities has militarized the nation because the protests that arose on July 11, 2021, when “hundreds of individuals went out to march peacefully all through Cuba clamoring for his or her freedom,” demonstrations “quenched with violence” and which resulted in a minimum of 1,555 arrests, in accordance with knowledge from the Justicia 11J group. However, the protests have continued since then, leaving a minimum of 909 folks sentenced to jail, 773 folks nonetheless in custody and one other 84 “pressured into exile”. “Despite the continual crimes of the Cuban dictatorship, many of the worldwide group continues to grant it impunity, credibility and help,” reads the Archivo Cuba assertion.

Of the individuals who tried to flee by sea, a minimum of 263 folks died; Between July 2021 and May 2023 alone, virtually 400,000 Cubans arrived within the United States. Human Rights activist Alfonso Chaviano Peláez died on May 4, 2022 within the custody of the nation’s authorities and simply someday after his arrest in Santiago de Cuba. Diubis Laurencio Tejeda died on July 12, 2021 after being shot by the Police, who opened hearth on a crowd in an illustration. Five different folks have been injured.

When making an attempt to flee by sea, Christian Barrera Díaz died after leaping into the water after the authorities arrived on the place “distributing blows and firing pictures”; Although the official reason behind his demise was drowning, his household believes that he was “murdered.” On the opposite hand, the 18-year-old Asier Roque Rivero, who had already been fined and arrested for his participation within the demonstrations on July 11, was accused by his ex-girlfriend of “threats” and “violation of residence”; later the Police took him to the hospital, the place they licensed his demise by suffocation and suicide.

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