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Delegation of Cuban
exiles will travel to Brussels today to
join Reporters Without Borders
M.A.R. POR CUBA announces that a delegation
from the organization will be traveling
to Brussels on Monday, March 15, 2004 to
participate - together with other members
of Cuban exile organizations and activists
- in the Press Conference titled "Europe
Says no to Repression in Cuba" organized
by Reporters Without Borders, to be held
Thursday, March 18th at the European Parliament
in Brussels.
This date marks the first year anniversary
of the most recent wave of repression unleashed
by Fidel Castro's regime, that culminated
in the arbitrary arrests, summary trials
and long prison sentences of 75 pro-democracy
leaders, independent journalists, independent
librarians and human rights' activists,
as well as in the firing squad executions
of three young Cuban men who attempted to
escape the island in search for freedom.
M.A.R.'s delegation includes directors
and members of the organization, ex political
prisoners and mothers of Cuban political
prisoners that are currently serving long
prison terms in Castro's jails, for dissenting
from the totalitarian system that rules
Cuba and for exercising their right to free
expression.
"We are going to Brussels, not only
for our children, but for all the Cuban
political prisoners. We are going to denounce
the infra-human conditions to which they
are subjected in Castro's jails, and to
ask for solidarity in the struggle for freedom
of the oppressed Cuban people", said
Blanca González, mother of independent
journalist Normando Hernández González,
sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The delegation will meet at Main Concourse
G of the Miami International Airport, across
from Continental Airlines counter at 11
AM, where they will provide information
on the scheduled program of activities while
in Brussels to interested members of the
press.
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