Dan Christensen wrote:
> On Apr 28, 6:41 am, PL <pl.nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Dan Christensen wrote:
>>> On Apr 27, 2:01 pm, chris <christiane.stock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Mr. Christensen,
>>>> Could you please share with us your views on freedom of speech and
>>>> human rights in Cuba.
>>>> Please: no ravings and rantings about other countries.
>>> Cubans are free to speak to their minds.
>> No they are not.
>> These are the repressive laws limiting their freedom of speech
>>
> [snip]
>
> Please post even one example of anyone being jailed simply for
> expressing their opinions -- for complaining about the government or
> anything else.
easy:
cases like:
Ismael Acosta Duarte, del mismo Partido permaneció detenido 3 horas en
la Unidad Policial de Santiago de las Vegas el día 31 de enero y el 1 de
febrero, el jefe de sector lo amenazó de prisión con un índice de
Peligrosidad Social. Ya había sido citado, amenazado e interrogado el
día 19 de enero cuando tuvo que comparecer al mencionado sector y lo
culparon de regar pegatinas con la palabra "Cambio" impresa.
La aparición reiterada de carteles antigubernamentales en Palma Soriano,
Santiago de Cuba, fué la causa del arresto de más de 20 disidentes entre
los días 4 y 15 de enero, 2008, algunos permanecieron varios días y
hasta semanas en Versalles, sede de Instrucción Policial de la Seguridad
del Estado en el territorio. sus nombres son:
Raudel Ávila Losada, Daniel Nieto García, Juan Carlos Parada Milán,
Wuilber Parada Milán, María Julia Parada Milán, Agustín Alonso Parada,
Robert Diéguez Labrada , Antonio Vladimir Roselló, Geovani Vidal Ortiz,
Orlando Gutiérrez López, Eduardo Pérez Martínez, Ángel Lino Isaac Luna,
Fabricio Bustamante Trujillo, Juan Carlos Figueroa Calá, Rubén Adrobe de
Armas, José Batista Falcón, Alexánder García Biscet, Roberto Rojas
Peradartas, Luís Daniel Ramírez Perera, Aleixi Fernández, Enrique Bonne
Martínez, José Ángel Cedeño Ávila, Elizardo López e Israel Folgar.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/36327
aúl Rivero is banned from publi****ng in Cuba, his native country,
because he is viewed as a dissident. He was one of 10 journalists to
sign the 1991 Carta de los Intelectuales, a petition urging Fidel Castro
to free prisoners of conscience. His exit and re-entry permits have been
consistently denied.
Raúl Rivero is one of Cuba's best-known dissident journalists and a
figurehead of the country's beleaguered independent press. He has faced
relentless harassment from Fidel Castro's communist regime and its
security agency since leaving the state-controlled press in 1988 because
of growing disillusionment with Cuba's political system.
Rivero was born in 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba. He was
among the first generation of journalists trained at Havana University's
School of Journalism after the 1959 revolution, and he co-founded the
satirical magazine Caimán Barbudo in 1966. He worked as Moscow
correspondent for the government news agency, Prensa Latina, from 1973
to 1976 before returning to Cuba to head the agency's science and
culture service.
Rivero resigned from the National Union of Cuban Writers in 1989 and
made a formal break with the regime two years later when on June 2,
1991, he signed the famous Carta de los Intelectuales (Intellectuals'
Letter), a petition calling on Castro to free prisoners of conscience.
Of the 10 signatories, he is the only one still living in Cuba. Rivero
abandoned official journalism in 1991, denouncing it as "fiction about a
country that does not exist."
In 1995 Rivero founded CubaPress, one of a handful of independent, and
illegal, news agencies set up by dissident journalists in order to
provide an alternative to Cuba's state-owned media. Like the country's
other 40-odd journalists working outside the state media, Rivero is
viewed as a political dissident and cannot publish or broadcast in Cuba.
Instead, he sends his work abroad for circulation on the Internet and in
U.S. and European publications, although publi****ng abroad can result in
a jail sentence for spreading "enemy propaganda."
Rivero's movements have been restricted, and he has been routinely
threatened, detained and interrogated by state security forces. He has
also been harassed by members of El Sistema Unico de Vigilancia y
Protección, a Cuban vigilante group tied to the Communist Party.
Officials have told him he can leave Cuba as long as he does not try to
come back, but, because he is determined to pursue his profession in
Cuba, his exit and re-entry permit applications have been consistently
denied.
Rivero is also a poet of renown, and he is regional vice chairman for
Cuba of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Committee on Freedom
of the Press and Information.
A recipient of numerous press freedom awards, including the IAPA Grand
Prize for Press Freedom, Rivero was most recently awarded the 1999 Maria
Moors Cabot Prize of Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism. He could not accept it in person because he was refused
permission to travel abroad.
In a February 1999 piece entitled "Journalism Belongs to Us All," Rivero
reflected on the work of journalists trying to re****t freely on
developments in Cuba. "Nobody, no law can make me take on the mentality
of a gangster or other criminal simply because I re****t the arrest of a
dissident or bring to light the prices of the basic alimentary products
for survival in Cuba or edit a note saying that it seems like a disaster
to me that more than 20,000 Cubans leave their homeland each year for
exile in the United States or that hundreds of others desperately try to
get away to some place, any place. Nobody can make me feel like a
criminal, an enemy target or a turncoat or any of the other name-calling
nouns the government uses to try to degrade or humiliate us. I am merely
a man who writes. One who writes in the country where I was born."
http://www.freemedia.at/Heroes_IPIRe****t2.00/40Riveiro.htm
Cuba's Criminal Code provides the legal basis for repression of
dissent. Laws criminalizing enemy propaganda, the spreading of
"unauthorized news," and insult to patriotic symbols are used to
restrict freedom of speech under the guise of protecting state
security. The government also imprisons or orders the surveillance of
individuals who have committed no illegal act, relying upon provisions
that penalize "dangerousness" (estado peligroso) and allow for
"official warning" (advertencia oficial).
http://hrw.org/englishwr2k8/docs/2008/01/31/cuba17767.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/36191
People can even be put in jail without ever having committed any crime:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/crime_of_dangerousness.htm
Cuba's government is repressive. Its latest crackdown targets so-called
''anti-social'' youths, most of them black. Since January more than 400
people have been imprisoned, almost every one of them black.
The rationale for the arrests is that this is a ''pre-offense security
measure,'' for not complying with the ''norms of socialist morality.''
This explains why there are no charges filed. Even the Cuban government
can't
file a charge for a crime that has not been committed -- but they can
and do arrest you just in case.
From: Crackdown on Cuba's disaffected youth, Miami Herald, May. 12, 2005
Political Imprisonment
In early July 2005 the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National
Reconciliation, a respected local human rights group, issued a list of
306 prisoners who it said were incarcerated for political reasons. The
list included the names of thirteen peaceful dissidents who had been
arrested and detained in the first half of 2005, of whom eleven were
being held on charges of "dangerousness.
From: HRW 2006 Human Rights Overview Cuba
Lots of do***ented cases:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=disrespect+OR+desacato&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=%22ley+88%22+OR+%22law+88%22&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=resistencia++OR+resistance&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=%22propaganda+enemiga%22+OR++%22enemy+propaganda%22&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=peligrosidad+OR+dangerousness&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/msearch?query=%22asociacion+ilicita%22+OR+%22illicit+association%22&submit=Search&charset=UTF-8
These are the repressive laws limiting their freedom of speech
The articles of the Penal Code now used more frequently to suppress
dissent include:21
1.
Article 144, which defines the crime of desacato, or
"disrespect." It states that anyone who threatens, slanders, defames,
insults, harms or in anyway outrages or offends, verbally or in writing,
the dignity or honor of an authority, public official, or their agents
or auxiliaries, in the exercise of their functions or because of them
can be imprisoned for between three months and one year or fined or
both. If the act of disrespect is directed at the head of state or other
senior officials the penalty is a prison term from one to three years
2.
Articles 208 and 209, which define the crime of asociación
ilícita, or "illicit association." These articles state that anyone
belonging to an unregistered association can be fined or imprisoned for
between one and three months. The promoters or leaders of such an
association can be fined or imprisoned for between three months and a
year. Anyone who participates in illegal meetings or demonstrations can
be fined or imprisoned for between one and three months. The organizers
of illegal meetings or demonstrations can be fined or imprisoned for
between three months and a year.
3.
Article 103, which defines the crime of propaganda enemiga, or
"enemy propaganda." It states that anyone who incites against the social
order, international solidarity or the socialist state by means of
verbal, written or any other kind of propaganda, or who makes,
distributes or possesses such propaganda, can be imprisoned from between
one to eight years. Anyone who spreads false news or malicious
predictions likely to cause alarm or discontent among the population, or
public disorder, can be imprisoned from between one and four years. If
the mass media are used, the sentence can be from seven to fifteen years
in prison.
4.
Article 207, which defines the crime of asociación para
delinquir, or "associating with others to commit crimes." It states that
if three or more persons join together in a group to commit crimes, they
can be imprisoned for between one and three years, simply for meeting
together. If the only objective of the group is to provoke disorder or
interrupt family or public parties, spectacles or other community events
or to commit other anti-social acts, the penalty is a fine or a prison
sentence of between three months and one year.
5.
Article 115, which defines the crime of difusión de falsas
informaciones contra la paz internacional, or "dissemination of false
information against international peace." It states that anyone who
spreads false news with aim of disturbing international peace or putting
in danger the prestige or credit of the Cuban State or its good
relations with another state can be imprisoned for between one and four
years.
6.
Article 143, which defines the crime of resistencia, or
"resistance." On occasion, the crime is referred to as desobediencia, or
"disobedience." It states that anyone who resists an official in the
exercise of his duties can be imprisoned for between three months and a
year or fined. If the official is trying to apprehend a criminal or
someone who has escaped from prison, the penalty is a prison term from
two to five years.
7.
Articles 72-90, which define the crime of peligrosidad, or
"dangerousness." These articles come under the heading, "The Dangerous
Status and Security Measures," a section of the Penal Code under which
someone can be sentenced for up to four years in prison on the grounds
that the authorities believe the individual has a "special proclivity"
to commit crimes, even though he or she might not have actually
committed a crime. These articles broadly define "dangerous" people as
those who act in a manner that contradicts "socialist morality" or
engage in "anti-social behavior." Moreover, Article 75 provides for an
"official warning" to people the authorities deem to be in danger of
becoming "dangerous," i.e., those who are not yet "dangerous" but who
are regarded as having criminal tendencies because of their "ties or
relations with people who are potentially dangerous to society, other
people, and to the social, economic and political order of the socialist
State…"
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) concludes that
because of "their lack of precision and their subjective nature," the
legal definitions of "dangerousness" and such terms as "socialist
legality" and "standards of socialist coexistence,"
constitute a source of juridical insecurity which creates
conditions permitting the Cuban authorities to take arbitrary action.22
In other words, the Penal Code articles which define "dangerousness"
constitute a catch-all mechanism which gives the government the legal
justification for taking any citizen it wants out of circulation. As
Human Rights Watch/Americas stated in October 1995:
Cubans who engage in "anti-social behavior" or violate "socialist
morality" may be held in preventive detention under the "dangerousness"
provisions of the criminal code for as long as four years, even without
being convicted of a crime.23
According to Pax Christi Netherlands and Amnesty International, there
are clear indications that the crime of "dangerousness" is used as a
cover to imprison people for political reasons on the grounds that they
are common delinquents.24
The Penal Code also defines the crime of salida illegal del país,
"illegal exit from country." Under Penal Code Articles 216 and 217,
those caught trying to leave the country without the permission of the
government can be fined or imprisoned for up to three years if they have
not used violence and up to eight years if force or intimidation is
used. In cases where passenger vessels or airplanes are hijacked, the
charge is usually one of piratería, "piracy." Under Penal Code Article
117, piracy carries a penalty of up to 20 years imprisonment, or a
possible sentence of death if there is loss of life or risk to the lives
of others.25
In the past three decades, thousands of Cubans have been imprisoned for
trying to leave the island without permission. In 1994, illegal exit
prisoners were thought to constitute the largest category of political
prisoners in Cuba. In 1990 alone, there were 335 inmates convicted of
illegal exit serving time in a single prison in Havana, the Combinado
del Este.26
Under the 1995 U.S.-Cuba immigration agreement, the Cuban government
promised to "ensure that no action is taken against those migrants
returned to Cuba as a consequence of their attempt to emigrate
illegally."27 However, the Cuban government still has neither eliminated
nor amended Penal Code Articles 216 and 217 to reflect this commitment.
Although recently there appears to be a trend toward lighter penalties –
e.g., fines and/or house arrest – particularly in cases of first-time
offenders, Articles 216 and 217 are still used to punish people for
trying to leave the country without permission. That underscores the
fact that the threat of punishment continues to hang over the heads of
those who are returned to Cuba following attempts to leave without
authorization. The current status of the U.S.-Cuba immigration agreement
and the condition of Cubans who have been repatriated to Cuba are
discussed in Chapter XVI, Section C, of this re****t.
See: http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/carib/1997-cuba.html#penal
Article 91: Acts against the Independence or the Territorial Integrity
of the State
ARTICLE 91. The person who, in the interest of a foreign State, commits
an act with the intent to cause damage to the independence of the Cuban
State or the integrity of its territory, shall be punished with 10 to 20
years in prison or death.
Law 88.
Promulgated in February 1999, the "88 Law" – soon nicknamed the "gagging
law" in dissident circles – weighs like the Sword of Damocles over any
person who "collaborates, by any means whatsoever, with radio or
television programmes, magazines or any other foreign media" or
"provides information" considered likely to serve US policy. The law
provides for very heavy sentences: up to 20 years' imprisonment,
confiscation of all personal belongings and fines up to 100,000 pesos
(close to 4,800 dollars, while the average Cuban salary is 250 pesos or
12 dollars per month). This law, that no court has taken advantage of as
yet, also provides for punishment for "the promotion, organisation or
encouragement of, or the participation in meetings or demonstrations.
Provisions of Law 88
In February 1999 Cuba’s National Assembly passed tough legislation
providing for stiff prison terms for those guilty of sup****ting United
States policy against Cuba as laid out in the Helms-Burton Law:
Whereas, the Government of the United States has dedicated itself to
promoting, organizing, financing and directing counterrevolutionary and
imperialist elements inside and outside the territory of the Republic of
Cuba. For four decades it has invested significant financial and
material resources to carry out numerous covert activities in order to
destroy the independence and economy of Cuba, using to such end
individuals recruited within the national territory, as has been
recognized by the Central Intelligence Agency since 1961 according to a
re****t released in 1998.(77)
The text of the law further details US legislative measures to finance
counterrevolutionary activities in Cuba:
through the Law of 12 March 1996 known as the Helms-Burton Law, the
United States expanded, intensified and codified its economic war
against Cuba and detailed how such assistance would be given to
individuals who would be used in the national territory to carry out the
subversive and imperialist objectives of the Empire … the Federal Budget
Law, passed on 21 October 1998 by the Government of the United States,
set a minimum of two million dollars to sup****t counterrevolutionary
activities in Cuba …(78)
In this way, financing subversive activities within Cuba is ****trayed,
in addition to the embargo, as part of the US ‘economic war’ against
Cuba. The introductory text concludes that it is "an inescapable duty to
respond to this aggression against the Cuban people,"(79) and proceeds
to detail the types of behaviour that would be considered as
facilitating US policy and the penalties for them (see text box).
Penalties included in Law 88
Article 4 of the law provides for seven to 15 years’ imprisonment for
passing information to the United States government or its agents that
could be used to bolster anti-Cuban measures such as the US embargo or
related destabilising activities within Cuba. This would rise to 20
years if the information is acquired with the participation of two or
more persons; is passed on in order to receive personal gain; or is
acquired surreptitiously or in a work context. Similarly, the penalty
would be aggravated if the Cuban economy were ultimately to be harmed by
the information being passed or if, as a result, the United States
government were to take punitive measures against Cuban or foreign
enterprises.
Article 5 provides for penalties of three to eight years, and/or a fine,
for those who seek out classified information to be used in this way,
which would rise to twelve years in the aggravating cir***stances
outlined above.
Under article 6 the legislation also sanctions with three to eight years
and/or a fine the introduction into Cuba, owner****p, distribution or
reproduction of ‘subversive materials’ from the US government that would
facilitate US economic aggression or related destabilising activities
within Cuba. The penalties are more severe for those who do so for
personal gain or who cause damage to the Cuban economy.
It proposes in article 7 terms of imprisonment of up to five years for
collaborating with radio and TV stations, printed publications or other
media deemed to be assisting US policy; accredited foreign journalists
are exempt. Again, the penalties are more severe if the individual
profits by the activity.
Also punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment are acts which disturb
public order for the benefit of the US economic war on Cuba, according
to article 8; the penalties increase for organisers of such events.
Article 9 outlaws ‘any act intended to impede or prejudice the economic
relations of the Cuban state’ with penalties of up to 15 years. This can
be extended if violence, blackmail or other illegal means are used; if
private profit is obtained as a result; or if the United States
government takes punitive measures in reprisal. The remaining articles
cover incitement of others to commit any of the above acts; distribution
of US funds or materials for these activities; and collaboration with
third states sympathetic to US aims in Cuba.
Source: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003
Spanish text of the law:
Ley 88 de Protección de la Independencia Nacional y la Economía de Cuba.
RICARDO ALARCÓN DE QUESADA, Presidente de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder
Popular de la República de Cuba.
HAGO SABER: Que la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular en su Primera
Reunión Extraordinaria de la Quinta Legislatura, celebrada los días 15 y
16 de febrero de 1999, ha aprobado lo siguiente:
**** CUANTO: El Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América se ha dedicado a
promover, organizar, financiar y dirigir a elementos
contrarrevolucionarios y anexionistas dentro y fuera del territorio de
la República de Cuba. Durante cuatro décadas ha invertido cuantiosos
recursos materiales y financieros para la realización de numerosas
acciones encubiertas con el propósito de destruir la independencia y la
economía de Cuba, utilizando para tales fines, entre otros, a individuos
reclutados dentro del territorio nacional, como ha reconocido la Agencia
Central de Inteligencia desde el año 1961, en informe que fuera
divulgado en el año l998.
**** CUANTO: La Enmienda “Torricelli” incluida en la ley de Gastos para
la Defensa de 1992, promulgada **** el Gobierno de Estados Unidos de
América, previó el suministro de medios materiales y financieros para el
desarrollo de actividades contrarrevolucionarias dentro de Cuba, y
mediante la Ley de 12 de marzo de 1996, conocida como Ley Helms Burton,
se amplió, intensificó y codificó la guerra económica contra Cuba y
detalla el suministro de tales recursos a individuos que serían
empleados en el territorio nacional para ***plir los propósitos
subversivos y anexionistas del Imperio, habiéndose reconocido
públicamente, desde esa fecha y en reiteradas ocasiones, la entrega de
dichos fondos del Presupuesto Federal de Estados Unidos para esos fines.
**** CUANTO: La Ley del Presupuesto Federal para 1999, promulgada el 21
de octubre de 1998 **** el Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América, fijó un
límite mínimo de dos millones de dólares para la realización de
actividades contrarrevolucionarias dentro de Cuba y el 5 de enero de
1999 el Presidente de ese país anunció planes para engrosar, con
recursos de entidades e individuos, los fondos federales que se destinan
a la promoción y ejecución de dichas acciones.
**** CUANTO: Las acciones anteriormente mencionadas constituyen una
permanente agresión contra la independencia y soberanía de la República
de Cuba, violatoria del Derecho Internacional y de los principios y
normas que rigen las relaciones entre los Estados, y de manera
persistente esta agresión se ha ampliado e intensificado durante
cuarenta años, se ha refrendado incluso mediante las decisiones
legislativas antes mencionadas y se ha proclamado como política de
Estado contra nuestro país, empleándose para su consecución cuantiosos
recursos oficiales, a la vez que se promueve el empleo de los que
destinen a esos fines otras entidades privadas e individuos.
**** CUANTO: Constituye un deber ineludible responder a la agresión de
que es objeto el pueblo cubano, derrotar el propósito anexionista y
salvaguardar la independencia nacional, tipificando como delitos las
conductas que favorezcan la aplicación de la mencionada Ley
“Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo, la guerra económica contra Cuba, la
subversión y otras medidas similares que hayan sido adoptadas o sean
adoptadas en el futuro **** el Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América,
mediante disposición o regulación, con independencia de su rango
normativo, así como otras medidas que propendan a fomentar o desarrollar
esa política agresiva contra los intereses fundamentales de la Nación.
**** CUANTO: Es propósito de esta Ley sancionar aquellas acciones que en
concordancia con los intereses imperialistas persiguen subvertir el
orden interno de la Nación y destruir su sistema político, económico y
social, sin que en modo alguno menoscabe los derechos y garantías
fundamentales consagrados en la Constitución de la República.
**** CUANTO: En ***plimiento de lo dispuesto en la Ley de Reafirmación de
la Dignidad y Soberanía Cubanas, Ley No. 80 de 1996, el Gobierno de la
República de Cuba, ha presentado a la consideración de la Asamblea
Nacional del Poder Popular, el proyecto correspondiente.
**** TANTO: La Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular en uso de las
atribuciones que le están conferidas en el artículo 75 inciso b) de la
Constitución de la República, ha adoptado la siguiente:
LEY No. 88 DE PROTECCIÓN DE LA INDEPENDENCIA NACIONAL Y LA ECONOMÍA DE
CUBA
CAPÍTULO I
Generalidades
Artículo 1: Esta Ley tiene como finalidad tipificar y sancionar aquellos
hechos dirigidos a apoyar, facilitar, o colaborar con los objetivos de
la Ley “Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo y la guerra económica contra nuestro
pueblo, encaminados a quebrantar el orden interno, desestabilizar el
país y liquidar al Estado Socialista y la independencia de Cuba.
Artículo 2: Dado el carácter especial de esta Ley, su aplicación será
preferente a cualquier otra legislación penal que le preceda.
Artículo 3.1: A los delitos previstos en esta Ley le son aplicables, en
lo atinente, las disposiciones contenidas en la Parte General del Código
Penal.
2. En los delitos previstos en esta Ley el tribunal puede imponer como
sanción accesoria la confiscación de bienes.
3. Los delitos previstos en esta Ley se sancionan con independencia de
los que se cometan para su ejecución o en ocasión de ella.
CAPÍTULO II
De las Infracciones Penales
Artículo 4.1: El que suministre, directamente o mediante tercero, al
Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América, sus agencias, dependencias,
representantes o funcionarios, información para facilitar los objetivos
de la Ley “Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo y la guerra económica contra
nuestro pueblo, encaminados a quebrantar el orden interno,
desestabilizar el país y liquidar al Estado Socialista y la
independencia de Cuba, incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de
siete a quince años.
2. La sanción es de privación de libertad de ocho a veinte años cuando
concurra alguna de las circunstancias siguientes:
a) si el hecho se comete con el concurso de dos o más personas;
b) si el hecho se realiza con ánimo de lucro o mediante dádiva,
remuneración, recompensa o promesa de cualquier ventaja o beneficio;
c) si el culpable llegó a conocer o poseer la información de manera
subrepticia o empleando cualquier otro medio ilícito;
d) si el culpable conociera o poseyera la información **** razón del
cargo que desempeñe;
e) si, como consecuencia del hecho, se producen graves perjuicios a la
economía nacional;
f) si, como consecuencia del hecho, el Gobierno de Estados Unidos de
América, sus agencias o dependencias, adoptan medidas de represalias
contra entidades industriales, comerciales, financieras o de otra
naturaleza, cubanas o extranjeras, o contra alguno de sus dirigentes y
familiares.
Artículo 5.1: El que, busque información clasificada para ser utilizada
en la aplicación de la Ley “Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo y la guerra
económica contra nuestro pueblo, encaminados a quebrantar el orden
interno, desestabilizar el país y liquidar al Estado Socialista y la
independencia de Cuba, incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de
tres a ocho años o multa de tres mil a cinco mil cuotas, o ambas.
2. La sanción es de privación de libertad de cinco a doce años cuando
concurra alguna de las circunstancias siguientes:
a) si el culpable llegó a conocer o poseer la información de manera
subrepticia o empleando cualquier otro medio ilícito;
b) si el hecho se comete con el concurso de dos o más personas.
3. La sanción es de privación de libertad de siete a quince años si la
información obtenida, **** la índole de su contenido, produce graves
perjuicios a la economía nacional.
Artículo 6.1: El que a***ule, reproduzca o difunda, material de carácter
subversivo del Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América, sus agencias,
dependencias, representantes, funcionarios o de cualquier entidad
extranjera, para apoyar los objetivos de la Ley Helms-Burton, el bloqueo
y la guerra económica contra nuestro pueblo, encaminados a quebrantar el
orden interno, desestabilizar el país y liquidar al Estado Socialista y
la independencia de Cuba, incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de
tres a ocho años o multa de tres mil a cinco mil cuotas o ambas.
2- En la misma sanción incurre el que con iguales propósitos introduzca
en el país los materiales a que se refiere el apartado anterior.
3- La sanción es de privación de libertad de cuatro a diez años cuando
concurra en los hechos a que se refieren los apartados anteriores,
alguna de las circunstancias siguientes:
a) si los hechos se cometen con el concurso de dos o más personas;
b) si los hechos se realizan con ánimo de lucro o mediante dádiva,
remuneración, recompensa o promesa de cualquier ventaja o beneficio.
4. La sanción es de privación de libertad de siete a quince años si el
material, **** la índole de su contenido, produce graves perjuicios a la
economía nacional.
Artículo 7.1: El que, con el propósito de lograr los objetivos de la Ley
“Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo y la guerra económica contra nuestro pueblo,
encaminados a quebrantar el orden interno, desestabilizar el país y
liquidar al Estado Socialista y la independencia de Cuba, colabore ****
cualquier vía con emisoras de radio o televisión, periódicos, revistas u
otros medios de difusión extranjeros, incurre en sanción de privación de
libertad de dos a cinco años o multa de mil a tres mil cuotas o ambas.
2. La responsabilidad penal en los casos previstos en el apartado que
antecede será exigible a los que utilicen tales medios y no a los
re****teros extranjeros legalmente acreditados en el país, si fuese esa
la vía empleada.
3. La sanción es de privación de libertad de tres a ocho años o multa de
tres mil a cinco mil cuotas o ambas si el hecho descrito en el apartado
1 se realiza con ánimo de lucro o mediante dádiva, remuneración,
recompensa o promesa de cualquier ventaja o beneficio.
Artículo 8.1: El que perturbe el orden público con el propósito de
cooperar con los objetivos de la Ley “Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo y la
guerra económica contra nuestro pueblo, encaminados a quebrantar el
orden interno, desestabilizar el país y liquidar al Estado Socialista y
la independencia de Cuba, incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de
dos a cinco años o multa de mil a tres mil cuotas o ambas.
2. El que, promueva, organice o incite a realizar las perturbaciones del
orden público a que se refiere el apartado anterior incurre en sanción
de privación de libertad de tres a ocho años o multa de tres mil a cinco
mil cuotas o ambas.
Artículo 9.1: El que, para favorecer los objetivos de la Ley
“Helms-Burton”, el bloqueo y la guerra económica contra nuestro pueblo,
encaminados a quebrantar el orden interno, desestabilizar el país y
liquidar al Estado Socialista y la independencia de Cuba, realice
cualquier acto dirigido a impedir o perjudicar las relaciones económicas
del Estado cubano, o de entidades industriales, comerciales, financieras
o de otra naturaleza, nacionales o extranjeras, tanto estatales como
privadas, incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de siete a quince
años o multa de tres mil a cinco mil cuotas o ambas.
2. La sanción es de privación de libertad de ocho a veinte años cuando
concurra alguna de las circunstancias siguientes:
a) si en la realización del hecho se emplea violencia, intimidación,
chantaje u otro medio ilícito;
b) si el hecho se realiza con ánimo de lucro o mediante dádiva,
remuneración, recompensa o promesa de cualquier ventaja o beneficio;
c) si, como consecuencia del hecho, el Gobierno de Estados Unidos de
América, sus agencias o dependencias, adoptan medidas de represalias
contra entidades industriales, comerciales o financieras, cubanas o
extranjeras, o contra alguno de sus dirigentes y familiares.
Artículo 10: Incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de dos a cinco
años o multa de mil a tres mil cuotas o ambas, el que:
a) proponga o incite a otros, **** cualquier medio o forma, a ejecutar
alguno de los delitos previstos en esta Ley;
b) se concierte con otras personas para la ejecución de alguno de los
delitos previstos en esta Ley.
Artículo 11: El que, para la realización de los hechos previstos en esta
Ley, directamente o mediante tercero, reciba, distribuya o participe en
la distribución de medios financieros, materiales o de otra índole,
procedentes del Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América, sus agencias,
dependencias, representantes, funcionarios o de entidades privadas,
incurre en sanción de privación de libertad de tres a ocho años o multa
de mil a tres mil cuotas o ambas.
Artículo 12: El que incurra en cualquiera de los delitos previstos en
los artículos anteriores con la cooperación de un tercer Estado que
colabore a los fines señalados con el Gobierno de Estados Unidos de
América, será acreedor a las sanciones establecidas.
DISPOSICIONES FINALES
PRIMERA: La Fiscalía General de la República, respecto a los delitos
previstos y sancionados en la presente Ley, ejerce la acción penal
pública en representación del Estado en correspondencia con el principio
de o****tunidad, conforme a los intereses de la Nación.
SEGUNDA: Los Tribunales Provinciales Populares son competentes para
conocer de los delitos previstos en esta Ley.
TERCERA: Se derogan cuantas disposiciones legales o reglamentarias se
opongan a lo establecido en esta ley, que comenzará a regir desde la
fecha de su publicación en la Gaceta Oficial de la República.
DADA en la sala de sesiones de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular,
Palacio de las Convenciones, en la Ciudad de La Habana a los dieciséis
días del mes de febrero de mil novecientos noventa y nueve, “Año del 40
Aniversario del Triunfo de la Revolución”.
Source: http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2003/cubacrackdown/law88_spa.html
>>> In the last national elections in January, the overwhelming
>>> majority voted by secret ballot in favour of the government(snip)
>
> What Mr. Lobbyist snipped for obvious reasons:
>
> "In the last national elections in January, the overwhelming majority
> voted (snip)
as the lies were addressed.
>> 614 pre-selected candidates and no hope to get another on the ballot
>
> That's your propaganda spin on it, Mr. Lobbyist (snip)
Nope.
That is the fact.
Even the UN rap****teur re****ted Cuba's so-called "elections" are a sham.
http://www.cubaverdad.net/elections_in_cuba.htm
>>> On human rights in general, allegations against Cuba look like the
>>> proverbial Sunday school picnic
>> (snip)
>>
>> so torture, extra-judicial killings, democide and politicide are a
>> "Sunday School Picnic for you.
>
> Again, the crimes of your political masters (snip)
Unlike you I have no masters.
But thanks for again showing what you are all about Mr. Hypocrite Serial
Liar.
You are a lowlife Dan Christensen.
Only dogmatically retarded people like you would refer to human rights
abuses as "a Sunday School Picbc"
Links to over 100 human rights re****ts:
http://www.cubaverdad.net/links_to_human_rights_re****ts.htm
as I said comrade Dan: whenever you post your lies about me I post the
truth about you.
You are right to understand that your record of lies, innuendo, insults
and sup****t of human rights abuses discredits you.
All shame you brought on yourself by your attitude and actions.
And the exposure of the "lobbyist" lie.
Your abuse of misquotes has been exposed over and over again Mr. serial
Liar.
When you tried to come up with your own new version of the lie
you also fell flat on your face , no?
Remember when you claimed I had been "lobbying" people In Geneva while
your pal "cuba libre" that stalked me then showed from an IP that I was
in Santiago de Cuba at the time.
Dan's other exposed false claim:
"Taking a little break from arm-twisting in Geneva, Mr. Lobbyist?"
Link:
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/b6375f9783e47aee?q=g:thl174670614d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
A real loser you are.
Below you will find what is behind Dan Christensen's slanderous
campaign: facts he can't deny.
- Frustration
I exposed Dan Christensen as a fraud in this group years ago when I blew
his "cover". In SCC he tried to ****tray himself as an "independent
interested party" with no political agenda.
When I came across a blatantly different reply to a similar question in
a Stalinist e-group to which I had been invited I posted it to show his
lying hypocrisy.
Since then he has been pissed as hell as it undermined his lying
propaganda effort to mislead "those in the background" (his own words,
those that didn't have "local knowledge". He himself admitted in the
same e-group that propagandist like him can never "convince" those with
"local knowledge".
In frequent exchanges he got some mad he often forgot to keep up the
presence and made him show his hand and true nature:
Quote:
"In my opinion the advances made by the Revolution are morally well
worth fighting for and justify the use of these extraordinary
measures.
In this case, the ends do indeed justify the means.
......................................
These measures, however, would NOT be morally justified in propping
less
worthy regimes in the region -- the USA and its vassal states in the
Caribbean and Latin America come immediately to mind."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=tirG3.176162%245r2.278940%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca
"It is wrong to think that a particular end justifies EVERY means. At
this time, for example, it would be wrong of the Cuban government to
send death squads after their opponents as happens in Mexico and
Colombia. Again, the actions of the Cuban government in detaining
these
so-called dissidents seem quite mild in comparison and are morally
justified under the cir***stances."
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=txMG3.176443%245r2.284921%40tor-nn1.netcom.ca
That meant he was exposed a the hypocrite liar he is. It showed that the
false claims he made about others (sup****t of genocide, torture, abuses,
......................)in fact only applied to him.
I have also frequently exposed his lies about facts and people in SCC.
"It is clear from Smith's article here (and his website, CIP Online)
that he does, in fact, sup****t an immediate and unconditional lifting
of your beloved embargo."
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/msg/3f1fe3a55c12d7d7?dmode=source&hl=en
HIS own words:
'We should reduce tensions, not aggravate it, making it clear to the
Cuban
government that we do not have hostile intentions toward them,'' Smith
said
during a 40-minute speech at a conference titled Cuba and the United
States:
Relations in Permanent Conflict, Causes, Effects and Solutions.
''I did not say lift the embargo without conditions,'' he said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/12157593.htm
You can enter after a free registration.
Permanent copy in the Cubaverdad archive:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaVerdad/message/16823
Then there is the issue of his lying website: I had pages removed (for
violations of law, slander, ...), have shamed him in to changing it on
various occasions (adding links that would then expose his lies, remove
lying caption from pictures, ...)and have in general exposed the lies on
it (on Amnesty International for example)
What Dan claimed on his website (the misquote):
"Today, for the first time, Amnesty International has explicitly
denounced the US embargo on Cuba in humanitarian terms, and made clear
its sup****t for the immediate and unconditional lifting of these cruel
sanctions"
http://members.allstream.net/~dchris/CubaFAQ215.html
Link to the "re****t": (the one Dan didn't give until I shamed him in
to it)
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=ENG-CUB
where the only thing Amnesty international asks for "immediately and
unconditionally" is the release of political prisoners.
Quote:
"in 1.
"On the basis of the available information, therefore, Amnesty
International considers the 75 dissidents to be prisoners of
conscience(2) and calls for their immediate and unconditional
release."
In 8.1
" to immediately and unconditionally release the 15 prisoners
previously named by Amnesty International as prisoners of conscience.
" to immediately and unconditionally release anyone else who is
detained or imprisoned solely for having peacefully exercised their
rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly."
en of quote
- Dogmatic hatred.
Dan Christensen is a hard-line Stalinist. His first steps in SCC were to
defend Stalin and in other forums he has praised "workers democracy"
under Stalin.
He has admitted that he is ready to fight to the last Cuban (from his
comfortable armchair in Canada) for his cause.
By posting the re****ts from the international press, human rights
organizations and Cuban independent journalists I have exposed his
propaganda as a lie. That makes the man wild with rage.
As he like to see himself as the "victim" (he once claimed he was being
censored in SCC) he therefore lashes out at people claiming that those
that contradict him are "CIA" agents (as if the CIA would care about a
third rate liar as Dan) and professional "lobbyists" probably to make
himself feel that he is "im****tant" and to explain away his complete
propaganda failure (****traying himself as "overcome by unsurmountable
institutional odds").
- Personal hate and the "rat pack"
Dan has suffered the trauma of having part of his website remove after
a long battle over the personal attacks and falsifications he had posted
there.
The frequent exposures of his lies and hypocrisy only fueled the
personal hatred.
Dan ganged up with various other propagandists that people that have
been attacked by them refer to as the "rat pack". I have been the target
of the lies and slanderous insults of this "rat pack".
They specialize in online slander (from posting private information,
attacking their business or businesses they are associated with,
inciting others to harass people, over accusing people of being "CIA
agents" or "lobbyists" to the worst things one can imagine)and direct
harassment (phone calls, letters, letters with razor blade or white
powder, loitering in front of people's houses,.. up to death threats in
France).
All they succeeded in doing was to dramatically increase traffic to a
website I participate in ( www.cubaverdad.net )and to suffer the
consequences of their slander.
Dan Christensen had part of his website removed. The Centre Che in
France had their complete website removed and their "secretary" known
here as "cubalibre" went to jail for 6 months for a whole series of
abuses. A Spanish "subsidiary" of the rat pack still has a surprise
coming.
All because of their lies were exposed.
But then in the end this is what it boils down to:
those that don't have rational arguments find themselves exposed as the
liars they are. When that happens all they have left are the old slander
tactics: they attack the people that expose their lies in the hope that
they can intimidate them.
If Dan Christensen felt he had any chance to convince people directly he
would try to do so by posting facts and arguing facts.
He is reduced to snipping, posting the same snippets over and over
again, lies and slander.
As long as he and the rest of the "rat pack" (and their hangers on) are
reduced to that they expose" their own failure.
Fine by me.
PL
"The Cuban government is based on lies and cheap propaganda. That is why
it is afraid of words and the truth."
Raul Rivero, April 2006, University of Sevilla, Spain
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