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Human Rights Violation of the Cuban Five Reported
in Geneva
 GENEVA.-
Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez, wives of two Cuban anti-terrorism
fighters suffering unjust imprisonment in the U.S. since 1998, met
with senior officials of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC).
The wives of Rene
Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez, respectively, are in this Swiss city
to continue their efforts to denounce the injustice committed
against their husbands and their fellow countrymen Ramon Labanino,
Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez.
At the 13th Council
meeting, they spoke to the director of the American Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Clare Martin, and El Hadji
Malick, Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detentions, reports the antiterroristas.cu digital site.
They also talked to
Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, and Dragana Korlgan, assistant to
the Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health.
In addition, they met
with Pasipau Chirwa, assistant to the Special Rapporteur on the
Independence of Judges and Lawyers within the HRC.
In all the discussions,
they referred to the repeated and extended refusal of visas by the
U.S. government, which prevents them from visiting their husbands, a
situation that Cuba has denounced before the Council. (CubaDebate
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