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Cuba: Human Rights

Cuba: Human Rights

United States Department of State

Paperback

Series: Human Rights

Social Movements

ISBN10: 1502838370
ISBN13: 9781502838377
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 15 2014
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Cuba is an authoritarian state led by Raul Castro, who is president of the council of state and council of ministers, Communist Party (CP) first secretary, and commander in chief of security forces. The constitution recognizes the CP as the only legal party and the superior leading force of society and of the state. A CP candidacy commission preapproved all candidates for the February uncontested National Assembly elections, which were neither free nor fair. The national leadership that included members of the military maintained effective control over the security forces, which committed human rights abuses against civil rights activists and other citizens alike. In January the government largely dropped travel restrictions that prevented citizens from leaving the island, but these reforms were not universally applied, and authorities denied passport requests for certain opposition figures or harassed them upon their return to the country. The principal human rights abuses were abridgement of the right of citizens to change the government and the use of government threats, extrajudicial physical violence, intimidation, mobs, harassment, and detentions to prevent free expression and peaceful assembly.

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