B3-0226/94

Resolution on Pablo Reyes Martínez, Cuban prisoner of conscience

The European Parliament,

A.recalling its previous resolutions on the violation of human rights in Cuba and emphasizing that progress in relations between the European Union and Cuba will depend on the Havana government's respect for human rights,

B.pointing out that Pablo Reyes Martínez, a journalist and official of the Cuban Human Rights Committee of the town of La Habana del Este in Cuba since 1989, who was convicted of producing 'enemy propaganda' and sentenced on 10 December 1993 to eight years in prison, is being held in the prison of Quivican, where medical treatment is inadequate and food rationed,

C.angry at his continuing imprisonment and the conditions in which he is being held, which are such that he is losing his sight and his health is worsening by the day,

D.shocked by the harassment to which he is subject, such as deprivation of his personal possessions, family photos and books and the continual body searches,

1.Calls on the Cuban Government to release Pablo Reyes Martínez immediately;

2.Adjures the institutions of the European Union to make known their deep concern at the particularly worrying effects of such imprisonment and the privations suffered by prisoners of conscience in a period when the island of Cuba is experiencing an acute economic crisis;

3.Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the governments of the Member States and the Cuban Government.