Press Statement
Gonzalo Gallegos, Director of Press Relations
Washington, DC
December 7, 2007
Attacks on Cuban Dissidents
The escalation in repression by the Cuban Government against peaceful activists should be of concern to all nations who
embrace the principles of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. The attacks by the regime on Cuban civil society
have occurred in churches, on the streets, and within personal residences.
We ask all democratic nations to call for an end to the violence and intimidation and join us in urging the Cuban
Government to release political prisoners, to return them to their families and to begin a process of national dialogue
and reconciliation.
2007/1107
Released on December 7, 2007
ENDS