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Enjoying the holidays with family and friends? Getting ready for the New Year's celebrations? Please take a moment from the festivities and think of those locked up and mistreated for exercising their fundamental human rights.  

The Communist dictatorship in Cuba remains a brutal system that continues to conduct political show trials, issuing long prison sentences, and over a thousand Cubans have been jailed for peacefully protesting since July 2021.

The Castro regime's model has been exported to both Nicaragua and Venezuela. 

Partial lists provided by internal human rights groups indicate that there are at least 1,034 political prisoners in Cuba, 235 political prisoners in Nicaragua, and 274 political prisoners in Venezuela spending the holiday season behind bars. At a minimum 1,543 fellow humans are arbitrarily detained and being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment for matters of conscience. 

We remain deeply concerned by the U.S. Embassy in Havana repeated the Castro regime talking point that a massacre that killed fleeing Cuban refugees on October 28, 2022 was an "accident." The families of the victims, and survivors courageously spoke out, and are now being subjected to state security's pressures to be silenced.

Worse yet, the penal code in Cuba on December 1, 2022 became still more draconian. Cuba’s new Penal Code was announced in February 2022, approved in May 2022, and came into force on the first of December.

Amnesty International on December 2, 2022 reported on its severity calling it "a chilling prospect for 2023," highlighting the expansion of the death penalty to 23 crimes, and punishing expression for even longer prison sentences.

It is for these reasons, and many more that we continue to call for the expulsion of Cuba from the UN Human Rights Council.

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