US senators ask UNICEF to protect minors detained in Cuba

Four US senators asked Catherine M. Russell, executive director of UNICEF, to prioritize the protection of minors imprisoned and prosecuted in Cuba for peacefully demonstrating on 11J.

“Le We urge you to demand his immediate release as one of your first actions in your new position,” Senators Marco Rubio, Bob Menéndez, Bill Cassidy and Benjamin L. Cardin said in a letter. Democratic and Republican representatives recalled that the Cuban regime arbitrarily detains its opponents as a tool of repression.

“One of the detainees, Kendry Miranda Cárdenas, is only 17 years old, but Cuban prosecutors seek a sentence of at least 20 years“, they recalled.

The senators highlighted UNICEF’s concern about the situation of the detained minors and the demand to the Cuban authorities for more information information on the reported cases.

“We believe that the situation in Cuba deserves the full attention and condemnation of the international community. The Cuban authorities must know that their brazen acts have consequences and are unacceptable for any country that claims to be considered a legitimate member of the international community,” the signatories of the letter pointed out. .

Furthermore, they lamented the lack of transparency that exists in Cuba and highlighted the importance of the denunciations made by family members and activists on social media .

“Given the agency’s child protection mandate, UNICEF is in a unique position to lead the international condemnation of these unconscionable acts and demand the release of these young people. As more trials and sentences are expected in the coming days and weeks, we urge you to intercede on behalf of these children and their families, who are simply seeking justice and respect for their rights. basic human rights of Cuban minors,” the letter concluded.

The letter from the four US senators joins the international campaign carried out by activists and human rights defenders for the liberation of the political prisoners of 11J in Cuba, fundamentally minors.

This week a group of Cuban women living in Barcelona, ​​Spain, sent a petition to UNICEF in Catalonia asking them to pronounce on the issue and demand that the authorities to release the adolescents

“As an international organization that defends the human rights of all persons under the age of 18 in all countries, We express our concern about the budgets Many cases of detention of children and adolescents reported in that country“, responded Quima Oliver i Ricart , coordinator of UNICEF in Catalonia.

The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) denounced before the United Nations and UNICEF the situation of some 39 minors under 21 years of age in Cuba, who are detained for demonstrating in July of last year.

” The arrests and processes that are sustained on hundreds of girls, boys, adolescents and/or young protesters, must be declared as arbitrary and in their favor urgent requests for freedom and reparation”, demanded the OCDH.

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