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The United States is deeply concerned about the continuing harsh condemnations of political protesters in Cuba, so we will continue to work with our partners around the world to show our collective support for the rights of Cubans who are unjustifiably detained. Cuban judges have sentenced more than 550 Cuban protesters to more than 4,000 years in total. Protesters are sentenced to prison, forced labor or other punitive measures. These numbers include more than 20 protesters arrested as minors.

Meanwhile, the Cuban government continues to detain more than 700 protesters who took to the streets nearly a year ago, on July 11, 2021, to criticize the government for not respecting their human rights and fundamental freedoms. Hundreds of protesters are in jail for arbitrary accusations of criticizing the regime and its leaders. Despite video and photographic evidence to the contrary, the Cuban government is trying to justify their detentions, persecution and draconian punishments by falsely claiming that the protests were mostly violent. Today’s class of political prisoners is made up of Cubans from all over Cuba and from all walks of life.

Prosecutors have ruled in the case of protesters from Havana’s poor neighborhoods of La Guinera and 10 de Octubre, with a sizeable Afro-Cuban population, accused them of rebellion and imposed the harshest sentences of up to 26 years in prison. Six defendants from these neighborhoods, aged 16 or 17 at the time of their arrest, received up to five years of forced labor. Cuban government officials continue to detain, harass and threaten the mothers of detained protesters who dare to speak publicly about their children.

These injustices have clear objectives: to prevent Cuban citizens from exercising their rights and to create fear of retaliation. Cubans have the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in accordance with the Cuban Constitution and as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Cuban government must allow its people to freely express their hopes and desires, instead of ruling with fear and intimidation.

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