In Cuba, more than 500 people went missing two weeks after anti-government protests.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – July 26, 2021 – International News
“Two weeks after the largest anti-government demonstrations in Cuba in a decade, activist groups say more than 500 protesters are still missing,” the statement said.
Dozens of people have reportedly been arrested by plainclothes police, and many families say they have not yet heard from their loved ones and have not been informed of their whereabouts.
Yes, a group of Cubalex lawyers claims that hundreds of people, many of them teenagers, have been detained.
The Cuban government says there is a disinformation campaign around the protests.
On July 11, thousands of people took to the streets of Cuban cities to protest economic problems and lack of freedom. One of the reasons for the protests was the lack of medicines and food. Cuba’s economic hardship is linked to both US sanctions against Havana and a pandemic of coronavirus infection, hitting tourism – one of the main sources of income for the country’s economy. Cuban authorities accused the United States of trying to provoke unrest.
Earlier, activists in Cuba reported thousands of detained protesters.
On Thursday, July 22, the US Treasury Department added to the list of sanctions the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Alvaro Lopez Mieru and a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which, according to the Americans, participated in the brutal suppression of anti-government protests. US President Joe Biden said the same day that this was “just the beginning” and that the United States would continue to prosecute those responsible for “oppressing the Cuban people.”
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Source: Ukrgate