OEA/Ser.L/V/II.48
doc. 24
14 December 1979
Original: Spanish

 SIX REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF 
POLITICAL PRISONERS IN CUBA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

A.  Reports of the Inter-American Commission on Human

     Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Cuba            

B.  The Organization of American States and the Government of Cuba

C.  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Government of Cuba

D.  The nature of this report          

 

CHAPTER I     -   LEGAL NORMS RELATING TO THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM

                             AND POLITICAL PRISONERS             

 

A.  Cuba's international obligations in the area of human rights

B.  Human rights under the Cuban Constitution of 1976

C.  Cuba's penal legislation with respect to human rights

D.  The specific problem of obligatory military service         

E.   The death penalty                 

F.  Concerning the socially harmful conditions and security measures               

 

CHAPTER II     -    SITUATION OF POLITICAL PRISONERS             

 

A.  General observations

B.  Prison treatment during the period of confinement            

C.  Individual cases of mistreatment in prison                 

 

CHAPTER III    -    AN ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL CASES 
                                SUBMITTED TO THE IACHR

 

A.  General observations

B.  Denunciations concerning freedom of expression

C.  Denunciations concerning freedom to leave the country

D.  Penalties for being in a post criminal, socially harmful condition

 

CHAPTER IV    -    RECENT EVENTS INVOLVING POLITICAL PRISONERS             

 

A.  The dialogue concerning the release of political

     prisoners                

B.  The pardons that resulted from the dialogue

 

CONCLUSIONS

 

 

 

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