Toronto Forum on Cuba
  • HOME
  • TFC
  • Campaigns
  • Events
  • News
  • Feeds
  • Multimedia
    • Galleries
    • Online Publications
    • Audio
    • Video
  • Links
  • Archives
    • The Cuban Five
    • Fidel's Reflections Archive
  • Contact Us

U.S. Government infringes René González' rights 

2/28/2013

0 Comments

 
Protest the restriction of Consular visits 

 The statement below regarding the restriction of Consular visits to René González was issued Wednesday by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After reading it, we urge you to join us in raising our voices in protest to the U.S. State Department. You can call the State Department at 202-647-4000, or you can fill out an online form by clicking here. Select the Topic as "U.S. Foreign Policy Western Hemisphere," and use the Subject line "Rene Gonzalez Consular Visits." You can fill in the "Question" block with your own words or you can use our message:

Picture





"The State Department has been denying Consular visits to Cuban Five member René González since September in violation of the Vienna Convention. I urge you to immediately remedy the situation and allow Cuban consular officials to visit him. I also urge President Obama to free the Cuban Five immediately and allow them to return home to Cuba."



Picture
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

New abusive measure against one of the Cuban Five. The State Department repeatedly denied consular access to René González.

René González Sehwerert, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, has been the subject of new arbitrary measures by the Government of the United States that is toughening the conditions of his supervised release, making it seem even more as prison conditions, with the aim of continuing to punish him after so many years of unfair and cruel treatment.

Since September of 2012, the Department of State has denied all requests by the Cuban Interests Section in Washington to let Cuban diplomatic officials visit René. These visits had been permanently authorized during the 13 years in which he was imprisoned and during the first few months of his supervised release upon finishing his prison term. Up to now our Diplomatic Mission in the United States has unsuccessfully presented the Department of State several alternatives for continuing regular consular visits to René, and these have been rejected.

This fact constitutes a flagrant violation of the obligations of the Government of the United States under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations of 1963 which covers René González' right to freely have communications with Cuban Interests Section officials in Washington and for those officials to do likewise and be able to visit him.

This deliberate and cruel decision also represents an additional punishment that is added to the already strict conditions of René's supervised release. René is forced to remain another three years in the United States, separated from his family, after having served up to the last day his long and unfair prison sentence.

Cuba strongly denounces this arbitrary decision of the United States authorities which violates René's rights while at the same time making the American government responsible for its physical safety and integrity.

Cuba will not cease to denounce these abuses before the whole world, and it will not relent in its efforts to attain the return to their Homeland of René and of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernándo González Llort, unjustly imprisoned in the United States for almost 15 years.

Havana, February 27, 2013.

Email: [email protected] * web: www.freethefive.org
Tel: 415-821-6545
DONATE

National Committee to Free the Cuban Five

0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed


    Voices for the Five


    Picture


    Archives

    May 2016
    April 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010

  • HOME
  • TFC
  • Campaigns
  • Events
  • News
  • Feeds
  • Multimedia
    • Galleries
    • Online Publications
    • Audio
    • Video
  • Links
  • Archives
    • The Cuban Five
    • Fidel's Reflections Archive
  • Contact Us