regarding the EU’s decision to temporarily put an end to diplomatic sanctions...

regarding the EU’s decision to temporarily put an end to diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, Sergio D’Elia, Secretary of Hands Off Cain, said:
“It is a free and unilateral act, a gift by the EU to Castro’s regime, which doesn’t correspond to anything serious, in terms of respect of civil and political rights of the Cuban people, offered until now by the other side.
“Of the 75 people arrested in March 2003, the 14 released from prison in 2004 are all on parole and the number of those released has been amply compensated by the number of those imprisoned during that time.
“We should keep in mind the data released by the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHyRN) last December according to which there are at least 294 political prisoners in Fidel Castro’s prisons.”
The Cuban Penal Code provides the death penalty for 112 offenses, 33 of which are common crimes. Death-qualifiable offenses include: crimes against external State security; crimes against internal State security; crimes against peace and international law; acts against State security (like the violation of Cuban territory by participating as a member of the crew or traveling on board a ship or plane); crimes against the normal development of sexual relations and against the family, infancy and youth (rape when the victim is under 12 years of age or serious injury or illness results; pederasty with violence when the victim is under 14 years of age or serious injury or illness results).