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Pax Christi. The
Netherlands. April 9, 2002.
Pax Christi Netherlands asks for International Support for his Immediate
Release
Pax Christi Netherlands is very concerned about the imprisoned blind Cuban
human rights activist, lawyer and president of the Human Rights Foundation in
Cuba, JUAN CARLOS GONZALEZ LEIVA. He is accused of "public disorder"
and incarcerated at the State Security Prison in Holguin, Cuba. He denies any
food and liquid in protest fo the accusations against him of committing common
crimes.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva is not the only activist imprisoned in Cuba.
People working in the field of law, human rights, journalism, and medicine are
especially vulnerable to state oppression in Cuba. Of the same Human Rights
Foundation four more members are currently imprisoned: Delio Laureano Resquejo,
Lazaro Iglesias, Virgilio Mantilla, Jose Carlos Morgado.
Pax Christi Netherlands calls for the international attention to the ongoing
violations of human rights in Cuba. International pressure on the Cuban
government is urgently needed to protect all those Cubans whose lives are
seriously threatened, only because they honour the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights that the state of Cuba once signed. | 
