Title	Cuba : Stifling Dissent in the Midst of Crisis
Publisher	Human Rights Watch
Publication Date	1 February 1994
Country	Cuba
Topics	Freedom of movement | Human rights activists | Human rights and fundamental freedoms | Human rights monitors | Prison or detention conditions
Cite as	Human Rights Watch, Cuba : Stifling Dissent in the Midst of Crisis, 1 February 1994, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/45cb392f2.html [accessed 5 June 2023]
Comments	This report provides an update on the human rights situation in Cuba. Again this last year, Human Rights Watch/Americas (formerly Americas Watch) has been handicapped in monitoring Cuba because of the regime's refusal to allow us to visit the country, to conduct inquiries and talk to victims, and to engage in a dialogue with the authorities. That is the methodology of human rights research that we are able to apply everywhere else in the hemisphere, but that the government of Fidel Castro refuses to allow. Monitoring human rights in Cuba also became more difficult in 1993 because of the pressures felt by Cuban human rights monitors. Some of those pressures were related to the alarming decline in living standards that all Cubans are facing, but monitors additionally confronted a climate of hostility C described in detail in the following pages that makes their work particularly hazardous.
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