Cuba: Fear of unfair trial/possible Prisoners of Conscience

Index Number: AMR 25/004/2006
Date Published: 13 December 2006
Categories: Americas, Cuba

Five men (René Montes de Oca Martija, Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez, Emilio Leyva Pérez, Lázaro Alonso Román and Manuel Pérez Soria) are due to go on trial on 19 and 20 December and Amnesty International is concerned that they may not receive a fair trial. The right to a fair trial is severely limited in Cuba, with the courts and prosecutors under government control. Amnesty International believes that they have been detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression, association and assembly, and if so would consider them prisoners of conscience.