Your Urgent assistant is needed.
Please read the information and write to the addresss, faxes and emails
below.
Also please write to the Cuban Embassy in your Country.
Thanks.
Frank HB
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Subject: IID: Fwd: Action needed-Blind Cuban Activist
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:56:20 EST
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To: [log in to unmask]
Please find below information requesting immediate action.
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Subj:[disability-awareness] Fwd: Action needed
Date:3/28/2002 2:02:16 AM Eastern Standard Time
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In a message dated 27/03/2002 19:19:39 GMT Standard Time,
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Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: Visually Impaired Human Rights activist beaten and imprisoned
by
Cuban Government - Braille books taken away.
Importance: High
3-26-02 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
URGENT ACTION:
SUBJECT: Visually Impaired Human Rights activist Juan Carlos
Gonzalez-Leiva
beaten and imprisoned by Cuban Government - Braille books taken away.
Your help is needed to take QUICK ACTION to help Juan Carlos
Gonzalez-Leiva. Heis a blind human rights activist and the director of
the independent AgramonteLibrary in Ciego de Avila, Cuba as well as
president of both the Cuban HumanRights Foundation and the Brotherhood
of the Independent Blind People of Cuba. Mr.Gonzalez-Leiva was arrested
along with several other
human rights activists on March 5 in Ciego de Avila, Cuba.
Mr. Gonzalez-Leiva was severely beaten by government security agents and
suffered a blow to the head, which required four stitches. Gonzalez and
a
number of other human rights activists had gathered at a local hospital
in
an attempt to draw attention to the plight of a journalist who had been
admitted there after being attacked by Cuban police.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a British-based human rights
organization, has put out an emergency bulletin about the beating and
arrest of Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Leiva, who is now on a hunger strike.
JuanCarlos
has been placed in a prison cell with a violent common criminal. Juan
Carlos is BLIND and cannot defend himself from attack, so your
assistance is
needed to help him. The CSW bulletin contains information on his case.
For more information on this case please visit:
http://www.csw.org.uk/Latestnews.asp?Item=261
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y02/mar02/25e5.htm
RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:
Please contact the Cuban government. Letters should be sent urgently to
the
addresses below. If you have written previously on this case you should
mention it.
1. Urge the Cuban government for the immediate release of Juan Carlos
Gonzalez-Leiva on the grounds that he should not be prosecuted for
exercising his right to freedom of expression.
2. Express concern at his state of health after he was beaten.
3. Ask for details of his current situation and for details of any
medical care he is receiving.
4. Inform the Cuban government that there is a movement started to free
Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Leiva.
Please send copies of your concise and civil letters to:
Cuban Foreign Minister,
Mr. Felipe Perez Roque. His e-mail address is:
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Cuban Libraries Head
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Cuban Interest Section Swiss Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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fax at (202) 986-7283
Embassy of Switzerland
Cuban Interests Section
2630 16 Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations
New York, NY
VIA FAX: 212-779-1697
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Head of State and Government
Dr Fidel Castro Ruz
Presidente de los Consejos de
Estados y de Ministros
La Habana, Cuba
Fax: via Ministry of Foreign Affairs: +53.7.333 085 / 335 261
Salutation: Su Excelencia/Your Excellency
Sr. Roberto Robaina González (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Calzada No. 360
Vedado
La Habana, Cuba
Fax: +53 7 333085 +53 7 335261
(Salutation: Señor Ministro)
Attorney-General
Dr Juan Escalona Reguera
Fiscal General de la Republica,
Fiscalia General de la Republica
San Rafael 3, La Habana, Cuba
Telegrams: Fiscal General,
Havana, Cuba
Fax: +53.7.570795/ 53 7 669 485
Salutation: Sr Fiscal General / Dear Attorney General
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