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Although the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) considered the release of biologist Ariel Ruiz Urquiola as a positive step last week, on hunger strike in prison, he also asked the Cuban government to "reform the laws"
"Dr. Ruiz Urquiola should never have been imprisoned, and there should not be more than a hundred political prisoners who continue in prisons Cubans to think otherwise than the government of the Communist Party, all of them in inhumane conditions, "said the organization in a statement.
The report asks the current president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, "to reform the law 62 or the penal code, eliminating any possibility of being prosecuted, tried, imprisoned or fined for the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms, collected by all democratic states. "[19659002] "As long as a general reform of Cuban legislation will not take place, by adapting it to international human rights standards, we will always be at the mercy of supposed gestures The Cuban government's humanitarian aid, which is truly of interest to the token movement OCDH was sentenced last month to one year of deprivation of liberty for the offense of contempt of court.
Urquiola was arrested at the farm that he was usufructing in Viñales because he refused to give his work tools to two state forest wardens who wanted to know him. 39, origin of the woods with which he had closed his property. After a hunger strike in prison, Ruiz Urquiola was released with extra-criminal authorization on Tuesday.
In the OCHD release, it is reported that in May, 108 arbitrary arrests were made in Cuba. In addition, permission to leave the country was limited to several activists and opponents.
"These are increasingly frequent actions as the economic situation worsens and the independent media show the disastrous response of the Díaz-Canel government to events such as landslides after the rains ", Says the report.
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