Cuba
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Ethel Kennedy remembered as ‘spitfire,’ rights champion U.S. President Joe Biden joined former Democratic presidents and others to honor longtime human rights advocate and storied political family matriarch Ethel Kennedy at a memorial service in Washington on Wednesday after her death last week at age 96. US Immigration Agency Contract with Spyware Company Poses Risk…
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Human Rights under the Cuban Regime More than a Decade after Pro-democracy leaders’ Assassination
Tags Share 11 years ago today, on July 22, 2012, premier pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá and youth organizer Harold Cepero made their way across the island of Cuba on the central expressway headed to Santiago. Near Bayamo they were rammed off the road by an official government vehicle, killing both of them. Their driver, Spanish…
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Remembering Cuban pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá, 11 years after his murder
Tags Share Today we mark 11 years since Oswaldo Payá’s murder by the Cuban government. While we celebrate last month’s Inter-American Commission of Human Rights findings, more is needed: By having the U.N. remove Cuba as a member of its Human Rights Council, it demonstrates the international community is listening.
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Cuba: Joint Submission for Universal Periodic Review Documenting the Situation of the Right to Freedom of Association
Tags Share A medida que se aproxima el cuarto período del Examen Periódico Universal (EPU) de Cuba por parte del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, junto con Cubalex, Justicia 11J y Civil Rights Defenders, hemos presentado el siguiente informe. A raíz de la pandemia de COVID-19, con…
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Implicated in Payá’s death, Cuba should be ousted from U.N. Human Rights Council
Tags Share By Angelita Baeyens Tags Share The Cuban regime finally is being held responsible for the murder of Oswaldo Payá, one of the country’s most prominent political dissidents and pro-democracy activists. This long-awaited development comes more than a decade after Payá and fellow activist Harold Cepero were killed in a car crash. Payá’s family…
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Oswaldo Payá Case: Briefing on the Recent IACHR Decision
Tags Share After a decade-long battle for justice, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) just released a landmark decision holding the Cuban government responsible for the assassination of pro-democracy leaders Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero in 2012. Following this news, we invite you to join us today at 2:00 pm for a briefing on…
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‘The Cuban regime killed my father’ – dissident’s daughter
Tags Share Angelita Baeyens, our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation, speaks with the BBC about the Cuban government’s culpability in the death of pro-democracy leader Oswaldo Payá. “They wanted to silence him [Payá] but they could not kill him in a way which would make it too obvious that the state was behind it.”
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Cuba Is Blamed for Deaths of Rights Activists in 2012
Tags Share On June 12, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights published a report holding the Cuban government responsible for the assassination of pro-democracy leaders Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, who were killed after a car crash provoked by Cuban state agents in 2012. Our VP of International Advocacy & Litigation Angelita Baeyens discusses the…
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Justice Achieved in Cuban Dissident’s Death
Oswaldo Payá’s death in a suspicious car crash highlights the dangers for human rights defenders in Cuba.
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Comisión Interamericana Responsabiliza a Cuba por el Asesinato de los Líderes Pro-Democracia Oswaldo Payá y Harold Cepero
Tags Share [12 de junio de 2023] Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights celebra la decisión publicada hoy por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), que responsabiliza al Gobierno cubano por los asesinatos de los líderes pro-democracia Oswaldo Payá y Harold Cepero, quienes murieron tras un atentado provocado por agentes del estado cubano el 22…
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Inter-American Commission Holds Cuba Responsible For The Assassination Of Pro-Democracy Leaders Oswaldo Payá And Harold Cepero
Tags Share [June 12, 2023] Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights celebrates a decision published today by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR), holding the Cuban Government responsible for the assassination of pro-democracy leaders Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero who were killed after a car crash provoked by Cuban state agents on July 22, 2012.…
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