Document #1139351
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on prison conditions for
political prisoners in Cuba, restrictions on foreign travel and
Revolution Defence Committees, please find attached a copy of the
following:
-Human Rights in Cuba, (Washington, D.C.: Americas Watch,
1989), pp. 41-51, 59-63, 79-88;
-Jorge Valls, Twenty Years & Forty Days, (Washington,
D.C.: Americas Watch, 1986), pp. 81-84;
-The Violation of Human Rights in Cuba: An Experimental
Perspective, (Miami: Center for Human Rights, 1989), pp.
7-8.
Information on restrictions on travel
within the country could not be found among the sources currently
available to the IRBDC which are not available at your regional
documentation centre. The Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices, (Washington: U.S. Department of State, various
years) as well as the Amnesty International reports also available
at the Montreal Documentation Centre, provide additional
information on the above requested subjects.