TAKE ACTION:
- Please take action as-soon-as possible. This Urgent Action expires on December 24, 2021.
- Write a letter in your own words or using the sample below as a guide to one or both government officials listed. You can also email, fax, call or Tweet them.
- Click here to let us know the actions you took on Urgent Action 88.21. It’s important to report because we share the total number with the officials we are trying to persuade and the people we are trying to help.
CONTACT INFORMATION
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear President Díaz-Canel,
I write to remind you that the international community, including independent human rights monitors, will be observing the peaceful protests convened on November 15, 2021, and urge you to ensure protesters are permitted to peacefully exercise their freedom of expression and assembly, as required under international human rights law and standards.
Hundreds of people remain detained for peacefully protesting in Cuba, including during the mass demonstrations on July 11, 2021. The cases of prisoners of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, José Daniel Ferrer García, Esteban Rodríguez, and Maykel Castillo Pérez represent only a tiny fraction of the total number of people who are detained solely because of their political, religious, or other beliefs without having used or advocated violence. I call on all to be immediately and unconditionally released.
Activists, independent journalists, and human rights defenders are also frequently subjected to physical surveillance and face arrest by police and state security officials if they leave their houses, which as Amnesty International has previously documented can amount to arbitrary detention. We urge you to allow all those who chose to protest on November 15, 2021, to do so, as well as to allow independent journalists and human rights defenders to carry out their work.
Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
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