Must-Watch: Cuban Regime Tries to Silence Blind Activist at U. N. Rights Council. Capitol Hill Cubans September 16, 2014
Below is the video of yesterday's session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
At the 31:45 mark is the testimony of blind Cuban democracy activist Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, who describes the tortures and abuses he's been subjected to by the Castro dictatorship.
As you'll see the in the video, the Castro regime's delegation interrupts Gonzalez Leiva's remarks three times, with the support of Pakistan and Venezuela.
The Castro regime's delegation then becomes visibly agitated and threatening towards the end.
Meanwhile, the United States and the United Kingdom intervened on behalf of Gonzalez Leiva being able to deliver his remarks.
Click below (or here) and watch at the 31:45 mark:
For live translations into English of intervention click here.
Below the text in English:
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva Speech at the UN Human Rights Council By Juan Carlos González Leiva - Published by Directorio Democrático Cubano
United Nations Human Rights Council September 15, 2014
I am Juan Carlos González Leiva, spent 20 years as a blind lawyer defending human rights, suffering beatings, arbitrary arrests and organized mobs. From March 4, 2002 to April 26, 2004, was detained in the Police Center of Pedernales, Holguín, without trial, for celebrating a congress about human rights. There, systematically they sprayed chemical substances over me that burned my skin and occasioned hallucinations, strong headaches and allergies.
I was confined without access to the press, telephone, correspondence, or religious assistance. Murderous prisoners threatened me and prevented me from sleeping night and day. In my cell were left exposed electric cables with current.
Human rights defenders in my country are victims of a constant policy of repression.
For example: In 2014 I was beaten together with 10 activists in the street. Agents dislocated my left leg and right shoulder and I lost consciousness when they applied a choke hold. Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez”and his wife Yris Tamara Perez Aguilera were arrested, beaten and transferred to the local police headquarters where Antúnez was placed in a choke hold losing consciousness several times and was injected by state security agents with an unknown substance. His home was invaded and sacked.
Other activists arbitrarily detained and beaten were: José Daniel Ferrer García, Yusmila Reina Ferrera, Geobanis Izaguirre Hernández and Ernesto Ortiz Betancourt.
I ask the United Nations protection for me and all the activists inside Cuba because soon I will return to my country to continue defending human rights.
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