Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco (Santiago de Cuba, 29 June 1944) is a former philosophy professor at the University of Havana,[1] president of the Cuban Commission for National Reconciliation and Human Rights (CCDHRN), a human rights organisation founded in 1987 whose work has been recognized internationally by receiving the Human Rights Watch prize in 1991 and the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic in 1996.[3]
A member of the coordination council of the Cuban Patriotic Union,[4][5] which has been described by the United StatesState Department as the "largest group of Cuban opposition",[6] the organization pursues a peaceful opposition to the repression of civil liberties in Cuba.[7]
As a notable dissident and human rights activist in Cuba, he has been declared numerous times to be a prisoner of conscience since 1989.[1][2] He has become over thirty years a worldwide reference for human rights organizations and international press about the state of human rights in the island nation and the situation of prisoners of conscience.[8][9][10]
Biographyedit
Prisoner of Conscienceedit
According to a 1989 International Amnesty report,[1] Elizardo Sánches was detained in April 1980 and sentenced to six years in prison, charged with spreading "enemy propaganda". He was set free on 29 December 1985 but was arrested again, along with two other members of CCDHRN, in September 1986 and imprisoned without formal charges or trial until he was released in May 1987.[1]
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^ abcde. Amnistía Internacional. AMR 25/13/89/s. August 1989. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^ ab"Further information on UA 298/89 (AMR 25/13/89, 7 August) - Cuba: Legal concern / Medical concern: Professor Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz". Amnistía Internacional Report. September 1989. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme (2000). (in Spanish and French). Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^"Concluye la fusión entre FANTU y UNPACU". Diario de Cuba. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^Unión Patriótica de Cuba (27 February 2013). (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 March 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^Malvar, Anibal (4 January 2014). "Liberado el líder de la disidencia cubana tras ser detenido en su casa de madrugada". El Confidencial. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
^"Sobre UNPACU: la creación de UNPACU". Web Oficial Unión Patriótica de Cuba. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
^"24 Documentos de Amnistía Internacional sobre Elizardo Sánchez". Amnistía Internacional. 1989–2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^"Documentos de Human Rights Watch en que se cita como fuente al CCDHRN". Human Rights Watch Reports. 2009–2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
^"Cuba no debe continuar encarcelando a disidentes pacíficos". Human Rights Watch. June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
April 13, 2024
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