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The defense of human rights presents an opportunity to hold accountable regimes that violate them. 

Advocating the expulsion of Cuba from the UN Human Rights Council, as was done with Libya, and Russia, is a means to hold Havana accountable for its terrible human rights record.

Individuals in Cuba continue to be targeted, jailed, and imprisoned for nonviolently exercising their fundamental rights to free expression, assembly, and association.There are now over 1,100 identified political prisoners in Cuba. The current dictatorship in Havana has been systematically violating human rights since 1959.

The Cuban dictatorship continues to block the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Cuban prisons.

No visits were permitted between July 1959 and April 1988. After international shaming, the ICRC was given permission to visit Cuban jails for a few months until the end of 1989. After that, there have been no further visits.

In contrast, there have been over 100 visits of the ICRC to the prison at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base.

For A Christmas Without Political Prisoners.

Christmas is the time to demonstrate our solidarity with those unjustly imprisoned for their political convictions. The late Vaclav Havel recognized the importance of people of good will to take action when he said in 2011: "It's up to all of us to try, and those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses."

There are over 3,067 political prisoners in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela today. One of them is Sayli Navarro Álvarez, a young Cuban woman.

38-year-old activist Sayli Navarro Álvarez is a cofounder of the Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White), a group of mothers, wives, and daughters of the 75 individuals detained during the "Black Spring." When Sayli and her father, Felix Navarro, went to the local police station in the town of Perico, Matanzas province, on July 12, 2021, to check on the status of demonstrators who had been arrested during the protests the previous day, they were violently arrested. 

In March 2022, Félix and Sayli Navarro received prison sentences of nine and eight years, respectively, for their involvement in the 11J Protests. According to Saylí's mother, Sonia Álvarez, she has an unidentified pain that affects both her stomach and back, but she is not receiving adequate care.

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