martes, 25 de julio de 2017


Opinión núm. 12/2017 relativa a Danilo Maldonado Machado (Cuba) 1. 
El Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria fue establecido en virtud de la resolución 1991/42 de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos, que prorrogó y aclaró el mandato del Grupo de Trabajo en su resolución 1997/50. Con arreglo a lo dispuesto en la resolución 60/251 de la Asamblea General y en la decisión 1/102 del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, el Consejo asumió el mandato de la Comisión. El Consejo prorrogó recientemente el mandato del Grupo de Trabajo por tres años mediante su resolución 33/30, de 30 de septiembre de 2016.http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Detention/Opinions/Session78/A_HRC_WGAD_2017_12_EN.pdf


martes, 17 de enero de 2017

Dos prisioneros llevados hasta el 47 del Combinado del Este



La madre de un preso que conoce a Danilo llamó a María Victoria está mañana. Dice que llevaron a dos presos, quienes estaban en el Depósito bajo cargos, hasta el 47: donde mandan a los prisioneros para fusilarlos en El Combinado. No sabemos si Danilo fue unos de estos presos. Pero no tenemos dudas de que esto es parte de una tortura psicológica para Danilo y sus seres queridos. 

La última vez que alguien fue fusilado en Cuba (que se sepa) fue en 2003, cuando tres cubanos robaron una lancha con la ilusión de llegar a los Estados Unidos, amparados por la política de Pies Secos/ Pies Mojados, recientemente eliminada por la administración Obama. Realmente esperamos que no vayan ahora a fusilar a un artista pacífico, que solo está preso por expresarse libremente sobre el exmandatario y dictador cubano Fidel Castro. 

La población penitenciaria en Cuba y por extensión todos los cubanos viven bajo la incertidumbre y amenazas constantes, en condiciones infrahumanas, bajo tortura, sometidos a tratos crueles y humillantes. 

Responsabilizamos al regimen castrista y a todos sus cómplices por la salud y seguridad de Danilo, por su integridad física y mental. Danilo Maldonado es un artivista, declarado preso de conciencia por Amnistía Internacional en 2015 y preso en La Habana desde hace casi 2 meses.

domingo, 15 de enero de 2017

Dibujos y cartas de Danilo







































Solidarity with El Sexto







Help our Change.org petition get to 15,000 signatures!



Kimberley Motley, Danilo's international lawyer, was detained twice and expelled from Cuba for trying to meet with him.
Human Rights Foundation has continued calling for El Sexto's urgent release.
Human Rights Watch 
Amnesty International has named him a prisoner of conscience and called for urgent action.
Freedom House
The Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses its concern over the detention of Danilo.


The Cuban American Bar Association is calling for his immediate release.

It's been almost two months since El Sexto was imprisoned

On the evening Fidel Castro's death was announced, Danilo did what most Cubans were thinking, but too scared to do. He went out to the streets of Vedado and using ETECSA's wifi connection, spoke freely via Facebook Live about the decades of repression and fear that have held the Cuban people hostage under Castro's rule. To his surprise, nobody was out there with him. It was just him and his spray can. On La Habana Libre's stone wall, he tagged, "El Sexto" and beneath it, "Se fue."

Hours later, La Seguridad del Estado broke into his apartment. The landlady downstairs gave the government officials the key, letting them break in to this peaceful artist's home. Over the phone with his fiance, Alexandra Martinez, he shouted, "They're taking me, they're taking me!"

Since that morning on November 26, Danilo has been taken to 5 different holding centers:

1. Police Station in La Lisa- where he was beaten and dragged across the floor
2. Police Station in Guanabacoa- beaten repeatedly by police officers and his food was poisoned with sleeping pills. He has since refused to eat any food given to him inside the prison.
3. Police Station Zapata y C
4. VIVAC- a processing detention center where he was denied phone calls after reporters began asking to speak with him.
5. Valle Grande Prison- where he was held in solitary confinement for 3 days to avoid suspected protests on International Human Rights day. Later, his fiance was denied visitation access under suspicions that she was not actually his fiance. He was quickly taken away.




6. El Combinado del Este Prison- a maximum security prison. He was beaten gagged while stripped of his clothing upon arrival. There is no sunlight, or running water. His space is filled with roaches and there is so much humidity that water drips onto his bed at night. His asthma and allergies have quickly worsened, but he was denied his preventative medicine.
Any prisoner who associates with Danilo is subject to being strip searched. No letters are allowed to be exchanged and all visits with Danilo must be approved by El Jefe Rodolfo.


Danilo's living conditions at the moment are inhumane. He has contracted a Cuban lawyer who has
had access to his "expediente" but his loved ones have yet to see it. He is allegedly being held under an accusation of damaging state property, at worst a 100 fine in Cuban pesos, but Danilo says officials in the prison tell him he will be tried for threatening"la seguridad del estado".

In the wake of Danilo's unjust incarceration, Cuban graffiteros have taken to the streets and begun tagging "Free El Sexto". But, the Cuban government has no sympathy for solidarity: His sister, Indira Maldonado Machado, has been taken in for questioning at the local police station, and his good friend Yordany Fonseca was taken off the street and interrogated for 2 hours under suspicion that they are behind the graffitis.

Most recently, sis mother and fiance both received an alarming phone call Thursday, 1/13 in which Danilo said he fears that he will be executed. This is psychological torture and more than ever, it is imperative that we continue demanding this peaceful artist's immediate liberation.

Por si algo pasara usted puede llamar o escribir a los siguientes nuemeros..


María Victoria (mamá)
maria.machado@cha.jovenclub.cu
54545437

Maria Caridad (abuela)
54750457

Indira Maldonado (hermana)
53873665

Puchito (amigo de la infancia)
52953329

Oficina Cubalex
(asesoría jurídica)
53-76472216
centrocubalex@gmail.com

Laritza Diversent
(abogada independiente)
53-52415948
laridiversi@gmail.com

Lia Villares
53-53798491
liavillares@gmail.com

Gorki Águila
53-53927726
gorkiaguila@gmail.com
53-72052230

Claudio Fuentes
53-53579652
claudioshooter@gmail.com

#YoTambienExijo
exige@yotambienexijo.org

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
orlandoluispardolazo@gmail.com

Antonio Rodiles
53716460
antonio@estadodesats.com

Pedro Vidal
pedrovidal@cubansoulfoundation.org
0017865310718

Luis Felipe Rojas
(Radio Martí)
4201 NW 77th Ave
Doral, FL 33166
1-(305) 437-7311
alambradas@gmail.com

Maria Matienzo (DDC)
53636724
menosveinte@gmail.com

Luz Escobar (14ymedio) 52367550

luzzescobar@gmail.com

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Asesoría jurídica

CUBALEX centrocubalex@gmail.com

(537) 7 647-226 o (+535)-241-5948

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Danilo Maldonado Machado

El Sexto / blog

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