According to the EFE news agency, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Cubalex is keeping track of the incidents in a public file shared on the internet. As of 4pm local time (9pm in Lisbon), 19 cases of repression involving more than 20 people had been identified.
The most common complaints were police surveillance and surveillance operations, selective internet interruptions, arbitrary arrests, and house arrests.
According to Cubalex, the acts of repression took place across the country, with particular incidents in Havana and Camaguey, but also in Holguin, Guantanamo, Matanzas, Santiago and Cuba and Vila Clara.
More than 8.1 million Cubans today elect the 470 deputies to the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s highest political body, for a five-year term. The National Assembly has the power to appoint the president and vice president of the country.
Before the elections, three opposition organizations announced their intention to act as election observers in the absence of independent international staff. Today they announced that they have 75 volunteers in 14 of the country’s 15 provinces.
Some dissidents and ‘non-governmental’ journalists denounced pressure and threats for promoting abstinence or preparing election observation duties in the days leading up to the election.
Source: DN
