CUBA I

CUBA I WHEREAS in Cuba there is no freedom of expression he repression by government officials and plainclothes Interior Ministry shock troops against independent journalists and their families has increased in recent months and even weeks in the last six months, so-called acts of repudiation by the authorities, house detentions, arrests, raids and confiscation of journalists' property have become almost a daily routine, reaching in this period a total of 24 arrests, nine jail sentences, seven acts of repudiation, and three deportations THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE IAPA RESOLVES to declare to the Cuban government its energetic condemnation of the systematic persecution of independent journalists, who only aim to inform on news events within the country to demand that the government annul the statutes, that are in violation of the most fundamental human rights and muzzle journalists, and instead grant independent journalists reasonable room in their own country to carry out their work without fear of losing their liberty or of being persecuted or deported.