(IAPA/IFEX) – This week, Cuban authorities refused to grant journalist Raul Rivera, who is vice-president of IAPA’s Cuba branch, permission to leave Cuba temporarily. Rivera, who is also current president of the Cuba Press news agency and a recognized poet, had received an invitation to travel to Spain, but immigration authorities refused to authorise permission […]
(IAPA/IFEX) – This week, Cuban authorities refused to grant journalist Raul
Rivera, who is vice-president of IAPA’s Cuba branch, permission to leave
Cuba temporarily. Rivera, who is also current president of the Cuba Press
news agency and a recognized poet, had received an invitation to travel to
Spain, but immigration authorities refused to authorise permission for the
journalist to go.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
American Convention on Human Rights, which states that “every person has the
right to leave freely from any country, including one’s own”; and violates
section 1 of Article 13 of the same document, which states that “every
person has the right to freedom of thought and expression”
respected, and that Raul Rivera be allowed to leave the country whenever he
needs to
Appeals To
His Excellency Fidel Castro
President
Havana, CubaRoberto Robaina Gonzalez
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Calzada No. 360
Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
Fax: + 53 7 333085 / 335261 / 333460c/o the Cuban Mission at the United Nations
New York NY 10016, United States
Fax: +1 212 779 1697or c/o the Cuban diplomatic representative in your country
(in the United States)
Cuban Interest Section
Washington DC, United States
Fax: +1 202 797 8521(in Canada)
Embassy of the Republic of Cuba
388 Main Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 1E3, Canada
Fax: +1 613 563 0068
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