5 hours agoKosovo side of US: 21 countries sign Declaration condemning protest arrests in Cuba
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The governments of 21 countries, including the United States, Brazil and Colombia, have condemned “mass arrests and the arrests of demonstrators in Cuba” and also urged the island's government “to respect universal rights and freedoms. of the Cuban people, including free flow of information for all Cubans”. The declaration was signed by [...]
The statement was signed by the foreign ministers of Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Guatemala, Greece, Honduras, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Kosovo, Montenegro, northern Macedonia, Poland, South Korea, Ukraine and the United States.
Citing the July 11th protests, when thousands of Cubans demonstrated peacefully across the country against terrible living conditions and lack of freedom, ministers from signatory countries said Cubans “were exercising universal freedom of expression and meeting, rights envisioned in the Universal Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights “and called on the Cuban government of” to release arrest “and” restore access to the Internet “.
