Articles 58 & 59,
related below, are fictitious. Any similarity to other democratic and respected
in real life Constitutions, is entirely coincidental and unintentional:
Article 58:
Freedom and inviolability of persons is assured to all those who live in the
country.
Nobody can be arrested, except in the manner, with the guarantees and in the cases indicated by law.
The persons who has been arrested or the prisoner is inviolable in his personal integrity.
Nobody can be arrested, except in the manner, with the guarantees and in the cases indicated by law.
The persons who has been arrested or the prisoner is inviolable in his personal integrity.
Article 59:
Nobody can be tried or sentenced except by the competent court by virtue of
laws which existed prior to the crime and with the formalities and guarantees
that the laws establish. Every accused person has the right to a defense. No
violence or pressure of any kind can be used against people to force them to
testify, All statements obtained in violation of the above precept are null and
void and those responsible for the violation will be punished as outlined by
law.
During the
recently concluded April, the CCHRNC (Cuban Commission for Human Rights and
National Reconciliation) could verify at least 905 arrests of peaceful
dissidents, for purely political reasons, a very high figure but it does not
reflect the increasing level of popular discontent, due to any individual or
collective manifestation of it is a police or criminally prosecutable offense,
since the government of Cuba, which has entered its 56th year exercising power,
continues to criminalize the exercise of all civil and political rights and
other fundamental rights. In the month of reference 90 cases of dissidents physically assaulted by
police and paramilitary agents and other 104 who were victims of the so-called
"acts of repudiation" and other forms of harassment or vandalism,
usually against peaceful opponents' houses were identified. To this day the
government of Cuba does not accept the full cooperation of the International Red Cross and other international NGOs on Human Rights, while, despite promises
last year during the Universal Periodic Review of the Board of DD. HH. of the United
Nations, they have not invited any of that organ Rapporteurs to visit Cuba for
the same purpose of cooperation. To be continued...
