Section of U.S. prisoners' families informed about their refugee program.
Havana, July 20 .- The U.S. Interests Section in Havana (SINA) today received relatives of political prisoners of the Group of 75 to explain the option of "refuge" for eligible when they are released, but not additional facilities offered to the ordinary procedure.
At least six female relatives of today's opponents came to the Refugee Office of the SINA after being invited by, darkfall gold, U.S. officials to explain the choices of the prisoners if they wish to emigrate to America.
Berta Soler, a member of Damas de Blanco-kin of those opponents jailed in 2003 - told reporters today at the output of these meetings that prisoners who do not want to travel to Spain have the possibility of such a program for refugees, ffxiv gil, " the same mechanisms as are all the Cubans who come to this option.
"It's a good information because many men and some who do not want to go to Spain say they want to go directly to the United States. But really from prison to the United States can not go," said Soler.
The woman, wife of dissident, jumpgate evolution credits, Angel Moya, insisted that the U.S. has not offered to those prisoners procedures other than those that are normally.
"Every government has its regulations and its requirements and that must be respected," he added.
For its part, Sofia Garcia, wife of opponent Jose Miguel Martinez, I say that for them the option offered by the United States "is very remote" and "long overdue."
Garcia stressed that the plan treated the refugees could take more than a year and does not offer the same benefits of leaving the country for family members include the agreement between the governments of Cuba and Spain.
They also expressed their fears that after waiting for months the Cuban government will not let leave the island "after the treatment is finished with Spain."
According to confirmed sources of SINA, these meetings will continue all week with the aim to "provide guidance on options to enter the consular United States" right from Cuba or from Spain, and can be requested by any interested family.
According to sources, the USIS has also offered to give advice on this matter to the Catholic Church in Cuba and the Spanish Embassy in Havana.
Last week the opposition Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) reported that at least ten political prisoners do not want to leave Cuba when they are released in the process undertaken by the government of Raul Castro to free 52 dissidents.
So far, it has confirmed the release of a first group of 20 prisoners, of whom eleven were in exile in Spain in recent days as part of the dialogue between the Cuban authorities and the Church, supported by the Spanish Government.
It is anticipated that the 52 releases take place within a maximum period of four months.
These prisoners are those who remained in jail even the so-called "Group of 75" dissidents sentenced to up to 28 years in the crackdown of the Black Spring of 2003.
In days past it was learned that Cardinal Jaime Ortega was in the U.S. in June shortly before the island's Catholic Church announced the agreement reached with the Government toThe release of these political prisoners. arj / sam / mmg
