Spotlight on Cuba: Crackdown on Dissidents

Documents from outside Cuba

Governments:

Canada

Statement by the Foreign Affairs Minister in recognition of the Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, May 21, 2008

Address by the Canadian Foreign Minister at the OAS General Assembly: Promoting Democratic Governance in the Americas , June 9, 2003

European Union

EU resolution lifting sanctions on Cuba, Luxembourg, June 22-23, 2008

Joint Communique, March 8, 2008

Statement by EU Commissioner Louis Michel, February 25, 2008

European Parliament Resolution on Cuba, June 21, 2007

Conclusions of the EU Council on Cuba, June 18, 2007

Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the situation of political prisoners Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, Victor Rolando Arroyo and Felix Navarro, September 29, 2005

Annual Report on Human Rights, 2004, expressing dissent on the EU’s executive policy toward Cuba, April 28, 2005

Resolution by the Council of the European Union on the temporary lifting of restrictions imposed on Cuba, January 31, 2005

Resolution by the European Parliament on Cuba, November 17, 2004

Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union concerning the release of political dissidents in Cuba, July 15, 2004

Joint motion for a resolution on Cuba regarding political prisoners, April 22, 2004

Report from the 2522nd Council Meeting, including re-evaluation of the EU Common Position on Cuba (pdf), July 21, 2003

Report of the Thessaloniki European Council, including comments on human rights violations in Cuba (pdf), June 19-20, 2003

Declaration by the Presidency, on Behalf of the European Union, on Cuba (pdf), June 5, 2003

Declaration by the Presidency, on Behalf of the European Union, Concerning the Arrest of Opposition Members in Cuba (pdf), March 26, 2003

Mexico

Statement by the Foreign Ministry: México deplores the death of three Cuban citizens, April 14, 2003 (Spanish)

Spain

Statement by the Spanish Chancillery: Comunicado de Prensa, November 25, 2004

United Kingdom

Human Rights Annual Report 2003 (pdf), September 18, 2003

United States

US-EU Summit Declaration, June 10, 2008

Address by President George W. Bush at the Council of the Americas on the US commitment in support of Cuban political prisoners, May 7, 2008

Address by President George W. Bush at the White House on the Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, May 21, 2008

Report: Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Cuba, March 12, 2008

Press conference by US President George W. Bush, February 28, 2008

Statement: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, February 24, 2008

Address by President George W. Bush at the meeting with Cuban dissident Elsa Morejon, January 24, 2008

Speech by President George W. Bush at the Department of State on policy toward Cuba, October 24, 2007

Remarks by President George W. Bush at a session of the US Congress, October 12, 2007

Remarks by President George W. Bush at the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration at the White House attended by relatives of Cuban political prisoners, October 10, 2007

Report: 2006 Human Rights Record: Cuba, April 5, 2007

Statement: Fourth Anniversary of the Cuban Dissident Crackdown, March 20, 2007

Statement by Michael E. Parmly, Chief of the US Interest Section in Havana, March 8, 2006

Report: Cuba: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2005, March 8, 2006

Report by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy. The US Record, 2004-2005

Press statement by the US Department of State: Treatment of Oscar Elías Biscet and Other Cuban Political Prisoners, July 21, 2004

Report by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy - The US Record 2003-2004, May 17, 2004

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: Cuba 2003, February 25, 2004

Press statement by the US Department of State: US Notes One-Year Anniversary of the Arrest of Cuban Dissident Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet, December 5, 2004

Press statement by the US Department of State: US Concern About the Health of Cuban Political Prisoners Raúl Rivero Castañeda and Oscar Espinosa Chepe, August 11, 2003

Fact sheet by the US Department of State: Cuba - The State of Political Prisoners, August 1, 2003

Press statement by the US Department of State: US Concern about the Health of Cuban Political Prisoner Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, July 29, 2003

Press statement by the US Department of State: Cuba - Kangaroo Courts, April 3, 2003

Press statement by the US Department of State: US Outraged by Cuban Crackdown on Dissidents, March 19, 2003