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Organizations Calling for Release of the Cuban Library Workers    
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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