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The Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) asks French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to intercede for the release of Eduardo Cardet during his visit to Cuba on July 28 and 29 .
Drian is prime minister of Emmanuel Macron's government traveling to Cuba, where he will meet Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez.
In view of this meeting the MCL asked him in a letter "to intercede with the Cuban authorities for the freedom of its national coordinator, Eduardo Cardet (elected in 2014 as successor of Oswaldo Payá ) and recognized as a prisoner of opinion. "
The MCL reports that the letter was handed over by the writer Zoé Valdés to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. "They explained that they knew the case of Cardet and that soon the minister would have the letter in his hands."
In the letter, the opposition movement recalls that Cardet Concepción "was violently arrested November 30, 2016 at the door of his house" in Holguín (Cuba), and that he was "found guilty alleged crime of "attack against authority" in a manipulated lawsuit. "
The sanction imposed by the communist authorities is" three years in prison to avoid their peaceful activism for a democratic change of the law to the law in Cuba, especially to coordinate the campaign "A Cuban, a Voice" that calls for changing the current electoral law to be democratic and inclusive. "
The content of this initiative was personally handed to the deputies Cubans by MCL activists.
The movement explains to the French minister that Cardet is "imprisoned in the prison" Cuba Sí "de Holguín." "He was stabbed by several inmates on arrival, deprived of the minimum prison regime and the conditional release which corresponded to him already according to the Cuban law ", denounced the MCL.
Moreover, "family visits have been suspended on the grounds that they" are detrimental to his rehabilitation. "They limit and even prevent telephone calls, he is ill, suffers from chronic asthma and is ill Did not receive the results of a biopsy performed in May. "
" Although Eduardo Cardet, continuation of the legacy of Oswaldo Payá would never have had to be imprisoned, the Cuban government does not comply with its own "Yesterday, July 26, a group of lawyers from the non-governmental organization UN Watch filed a complaint to the United Nations to request the release from Cuba. Eduardo Cardet
The 23-page document was handed to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, an independent tribunal of five jurists and human rights experts.
For its part, the NGO Peace and Cooperation, with special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, on Friday asked the 27 government of Spain to intercede also for the freedom of the Leader of the Opposition.
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