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NEWS
Urgent,
hunger strike in the Nassau Detention Center.
December 6, 2004
Today, December 6, 2004, at 3:30 pm, we received a telephone call from
Jorge Luis Conde Morales, one of the members of the Democratic Party
November 30 "Frank País", retained at the Center for Refugees in the
Bahamas where he stated that as 4 in the afternoon of today's date all
the Cubans at the camp (58 in total) began a hunger strike with the
exception of the two children also retained in the camp They are
protesting the abuse committed by the Bahamas Government by trying to
subdue them by torturing with hunger.
Conde Morales states their food intake had been progressively reduced,
to the point of giving them a piece of bread and some tea for for
breakfast today and that at 3 in the afternoon they brought them what
was to be their lunch-dinner, it consisted of another piece of bread, on
this occasion with fish. He further states that this is the type of food
they have been serving them along with a bit of white corn meal, which
they suspended today.
These actions forced the Cubans to start a hunger strike for "not eat
anything is similar to eat very little", states Conde Morales. The
general consensus in the camp is that the Government of the Bahamas uses
hunger as an instrument to make them sign a repatriation letter
"voluntarily", which we refuse to sign under any circumstance"- finished
saying Conde Morales.
The Committee for Assistance to Human Rights Activists asks the
civilized World to demand the Government of the First Prime Minister
Perry Christie to respect the International Refugee Treaties and to
provide proper food and the necessary medical attention to the refugees
at the Carmichael Detention Center in Nassau.
Luis Israel Abreu
Executive Director of CAHRA
(m30november@hotmail.com
Net For Cuba International call on the Community to write, call, send
faxes for the respect of the human rights of the Cubans retained in
Bahamas.
ADDRESS YOUR CALLS TO:
Ministro de Trabajo e Inmigración
The Honourable Vincent Peet
Minister of Labour and Immigration
East Hill Street
Post Office Building
Second Floor
PO Box N-3008
Nassau, Bahamas
Fax: +1 242 325 1920
Tratamiento: Dear Minister / Sr. Ministro
Viceprimera Ministra y Ministra de Seguridad Nacional
The Honourable Cynthia Pratt
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Security
Ministry of National Security
Churchill Building
Bay Street
Nassau
PO Box N-3217, Bahamas
Fax: +1 242 356 6087
Tratamiento: Dear Deputy Prime Minister / Sra. Viceprimera Ministra
COPIA A:
Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores
The Honourable Fred Mitchell
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
East Hill Street
PO Box N-3746
Nassau, Bahamas
Fax: +1 242 326 2123 o +1 242 328 8212
Tratamiento: Dear Minister / Sr. Ministro
Fiscal General y Ministro de Educación
The Hon. Alfred Sears
Attorney General and Minister of Education
Ministry of Justice and Office of the Attorney General
Post Office Building
PO Box N-3007
Nassau, Bahamas
Fax: +1 242 322 5921
Tratamiento: Dear Attorney General / Sr. Fiscal General
y a los representantes diplomáticos de Bahamas acreditados en su país
Carmichael Roadn Detention Center, Nassau, Bahamas
Tel.: 1 (242) 341-5223
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs and Public Services, Ministry of
mailto: mfabahamas@batelnet.org
242 - 322-7624/5
242 - 328-8212/326-2123
Godfrey Rolle, Commander, Drugs, Crime and Maritime Unit
Patricia Rodgers, Permanent Secretary
Marco Rolle, Under Secretary
East Hill St
P. O. Box N 3746
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
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