The US asks the government of Cuba to “respect fundamental rights” after prohibiting protest

USA he asked the government of Cuba “Respect the fundamental rights” of Cubans, by rejecting Havana’s decision to prohibit an opposition march scheduled for November 15.

“It is the freedom of expression, it is the freedom to assemble peacefully that the Cuban government has denied its people,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.

“We call on the government in Havana to respect the fundamental freedoms and fundamental rights of the Cuban people,” he said.

The Cuban government on Tuesday denied an opposition request to organize a protest next month, claiming its promoters have ties to Washington to push for regime change following unprecedented July 11-12 demonstrations across the island.

Price denied that the United States is behind these mobilizations.

“What happened in July, what happened in the days and weeks after that, was not about the United States. It was about the conduct of the Cuban regime, the unsatisfied aspirations of the Cuban people for freedom, for dignity, for prosperity, elements that have been denied to them by this regime for too long, since 1959 ″, he asserted.

The July marches in fifty Cuban cities left one dead, dozens injured, and hundreds detained.

The spokesman for US diplomacy called for the “immediate release” of all of them, after denouncing “arbitrary arrests”, “disappearances” and “summary trials.”

“The violence we have seen, the arrests we have seen, the repression we have seen, now the ban on peaceful protest that we have seen, all this reminds us that the Cuban people are paying dearly for their fight for freedom,” he said. Price.