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Organizations Calling for Release of the Cuban Library Workers and other Black Spring 2003 Prisoners of Conscience, as of 20 April 2009 Campaign for Peace and Democracy (March 2003) http://hnn.us/comments/11516.html and at http://www.cpdweb.org/statements/1003/stmt.html Liberal International (March 2003) http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/lac/cuba/statements/li.asp http://www.liberal-international.org/editorialIndex.asp?ia_id=1217&keywords=adolfo|||fernandez|||sainz Christian Democrat International (21 March 2003) http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/lac/cuba/statements/cdi.asp European Union Presidency (26 March 2003 and 5 June 2003) http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/cfsp/75232.pdf and http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/cfsp/76075.pdf Socialist International (28 March 2003) http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticleID=1475 French Communist Party (8 April 2003) http://www.pcf.fr/?iddoc=2565 and http://www.pcf.fr/?iddoc=2567 The International Press Institute (8 April 2003, 17 March 2009) http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/statements_detail.html?ctxid=CH0055&docid=CMS1144853522811&year=2003 http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/statements_detail.html?ctxid=CH0055&docid=CMS1237284229858 World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum (9 April 2003) http://www.wan-press.org/article1062.html?var_recherche=cuba World Council of Churches, General Secretary (18 April 2003) http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/4/prweb63321.htm Italian legislature (29 April 2003) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/2986897.stm Amnesty International (beginning 3 June 2003, then in 2004 and again in 2005 and 2008) http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250172003?open&of=ENG-CUB http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR250052004 http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR250022005 http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17659 http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17660 http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/cuba-58-prisoners-conscience-must-be-released-20080218 http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/new-cuban-leadership-can-improve-human-rights-20080219 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?lang=e&id=ENGUSA20080317005 http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR25/002/2008/en/45e7fb64-9074-11dd-b16f-6118895def38/amr250022008en.html International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (9 July 2003) http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991218325&Language=EN UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Personal Representative (4 January 2005, 20 January 2006 and 26 January 2007) http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G05/102/49/PDF/G0510249.pdf?OpenElement, accessed via http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/LACRegion/Pages/CUIndex.aspx by clicking on Report of Christine Chanet, Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba, (E/CN.4/2005/33) http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/103/09/PDF/G0610309.pdf?OpenElement, accessed via http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/LACRegion/Pages/CUIndex.aspx by clicking on Report submitted by the Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba, Christine Chanet (E/CN.4/2006/33) http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G07/105/23/PDF/G0710523.pdf?OpenElement, accessed via http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/LACRegion/Pages/CUIndex.aspx by clicking on Report of the Personal Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba, Ms. Christine Chanet (A/HRC/4/12) International Federation for Human Rights, a.k.a. FIDH: La Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme (21 March 2003, etc.) http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?article2337 http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?article264 (8 April 2003) http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?article257 (1 July 2003) http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?article459 (19 January 2004) http://www.fidh.org/spip.php?article754 (18 March 2004) COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: “CUBA: Preocupación frente a los recientes actos de hostigamiento,”) 27 de marzo de 2009 German Bundestag Commission of Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (11 November 2003) http://www.netforcuba.org/News-EN/2003/Nov/News277.htm 179 American leftists, in a Letter to the Editors of New York Review of Books, vol. L, no. 19 (December 4, 2003), p. 62. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0420-10.htm International PEN (5 December 2003, campaign of 6-12 September 2004, 21 February 2008, 13 March 2008, 17-22 September 2008) http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.php?pid=33&aid=36&query=cuba (inactive) http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.php?pid=33&aid=158&return=33 (inactive) http://penusa.org/go/news/comments/108/ [2004] http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.php?pid=33&aid=751&type=current (inactive) http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.php?pid=33&aid=760&type=current (inactive) http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/internationalpen/index.cfm?objectid=F600B811-E0C4-ED84-0F6E1C23DB228FDC http://www.internationalpen.org.uk/index.cfm?objectid=058221CF-E0C4-ED84-072EA68D31FD891B International Society for Human Rights (Germany) (early 2004) http://www.ishr.org/activities/countries/cuba/hrcuba2003.htm#5 http://www.ishr.org/activities/countries/cuba/Detailansicht.384+M5c2321e4d98.0.html (11 January 2008) John Berry, 2003-2004 Chair of the American Library Association’s International Relations Committee and President of the ALA in 2001-2002 (7 March 2004) http://www.peaceworkingmagazine.org/pwork/0403/040307.htm Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, and Freedom House, et al (17 March 2004) http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/17/cuba8126_txt.htm Freedom House, International League for Human Rights, Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, and Human Rights First (call renewed 31 March 2007 at http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/CubaFourYears/8bd5d7brrt555e8?), and Human Rights Watch (17 March 2004, reiterated 19 February 2008 and September 2008) http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=70&release=52 http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/19/cuba18102.htm http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/CU/HRW_CUB_UPR_S4_2009_HumanRightsWatch.pdf Human Rights First (21 March 2005, 21 February 2008, 18 March 2008 and 11 December 2008) http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/2005_alerts/hrd_0321_cuba.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-jordan/a-fresh-start-for-human-r_b_87897.html http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/hrd/2008/alert/436/index.htm http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2008/12/11/cuba-free-dissidents-now European Parliament (22 April 2004) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P5-TA-2004-0379&language=CS European Union Council (14 June 2004 and 17 June 2007) http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/gena/80951.pdf http://www.europa-eu-un.org/articles/en/article_7117_en.htm PEN American Center (19 July 2004, 2 December 2004, August 2005) http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/365 http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/136 http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/600 http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1022 International Labor Organization Committee on Freedom of Association (18 August 2004, 17 June 2005, November 2006) http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/refs/pdf/pv290.pdf http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/relm/gb/refs/pdf/pv293.pdf http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/pdconv.pl?host=status01&textbase=iloeng&document=104&chapter=22&query=%23YEAR%3D2006&highlight=&querytype=bool&context=0 Association of Library and Information Professionals of the Czech Republic, Presidium of the Executive Committee (18 January 2005) http://skip.nkp.cz Inter American Press Association (22 February 2005, 18 March 2009) http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/64884/ http://www.sipiapa.org/v4/index.php?page=cont_comunicados&seccion=detalles&idioma=us&id=4154 Committee to Protect Journalists (16 March 2005, 14 March 2007, 28 February 2008, 25 June 2008, 6 January 2009) http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2005/cuba_crackdown_05/cuba_crackdown_main.html http://www.cpj.org/protests/07ltrs/americas/cuba14mar07pl.html http://www.cpj.org/news/2008/americas/cuba28feb08na.html http://www.cpj.org/protests/08ltrs/americas/cuba25jun2008pl.html http://www.cpj.org/protests/08ltrs/americas/cuba23sep2008pl.html http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/99604/ Polish Librarians Association National Congress of Delegates (5 June 2005) http://ebib.oss.wroc.pl/sbp/interwen10_6.html http://solidarnizkuba.pl/en/resolution Estonian Librarians Association President (4 August 2005) Letter to Robert Kent of the Friends of Cuban Libraries French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy (12 October 2005) http://www.liberal-international.org/newsletter.asp?ia_id=1209 Confédération Mondiale du Travail (27 November 2005) http://www.cmt-wcl.org/cmt/ewcm.nsf/_/D90F980F789DB5A2C12570B300549C05?OpenDocument Michael Gorman, President of the American Library Association (January 22, 2006): “[T]hese people should not be in prison. They should be freed immediately. They should never have been sentenced, sent to prison for the activities connected with any kind of dissemination of information or literature.” http://groups.google.com/group/Cuba451Letters/web/anrdei-codrescu-and-michael-gorman-discuss-cubas-library-prisoners-22-january-2006 Library Association of Latvia (28 February 2006) http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/Cuba-Resolution2006.pdf Pax Christi of the Netherlands (members of which have also adopted individual prisoners and have published their own individual appeals in the Netherlands media) (18 March 2006) http://www.paxchristi.nl/ons_werk_campagnes_campagne_open_de_wereld_voor_cuba_adoptieactie.htm Association for International Affairs (Czech Republic), People in Need (Czech Republic), and the Pontis Foundation (Slovakia) (26 April 2006). Accessed May 28, 2007 at http://www.icdcprague.org/index.php?id=32 People In Need (Czech Republic) (undated) http://www.clovekvtisni.cz/english/humanitarnipomoc/cuba/international.php Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (21 October 2006, reiterated in 2007 Annual Report) http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/2006eng/CUBA.12476eng.htm http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/2007eng/Chap.4b.htm English PEN (2 May 2007) http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/bulletins/cubaoscarsnchezmadansentencedtofouryearsfourthcubanjournalisttobejailedaspre-criminaldangertosocietyinthelastsixmonths/ Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, being “Representatives of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Commonwealth Press Union, International Association of Broadcasting, International Press Institute, North American Broadcasters Association, World Association of Newspapers, World Press Freedom Committee and Inter American Press Association” (3 December 2007) http://www.sipiapa.org/pressreleases/chronologicaldetail.cfm?PressReleaseID=2036 Lech Walesa and Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's leading liberal daily (21 January 2008) http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifSlpKIq6TraoOU_RqYnrXay5QHw Reporters Without Borders (16 March 2005, 9 August 2006, 18 February 2008, 3 February 2009) http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=12883 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18520 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25781 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=30185 International Committee for Democracy in Cuba, including former presidents or prime ministers of Albania, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Canada (16 March 2008) http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/vclav_havel/2008/03/europe_needs_solidarity_over_c.html Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations (18 June 2008), representing: Committee to Protect Journalists Inter American Press Association International Association of Broadcasting International Press Institute World Association of Newspapers World Press Freedom Committee http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/statements_detail.html?ctxid=CH0055&docid=CMS1213871920113 European Union External Relations Commissioner (20 June 2008) http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2008/06/200861923359562111.html Canada (Gwyn Kutz, senior Canadian diplomat (5 February 2009) http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL536528 Israeli ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar (5 February 2009) http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL536528 Expressions of “deep concern,” etc., falling short of calls for release: American Bar Association http://www.abanet.org/humanrights/docs/rule_cuba.pdf American Library Association http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=53695 International Federation of Library Associations http://www.ifla.org/V/press/faife-cuba03pr.htm UNESCO Director General http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8979&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html The Vatican http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=FB071FFF39590C748EDDAD0894DB404482. Pope John Paul II … sent a letter to Mr. Castro expressing deep pain and sorrow … Expressions of Agreement with the Arrests and Verdicts: Cuban Libraries Solidarity Group: http://www.cubanlibrariessolidaritygroup.org.uk/ “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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