The Cuban government engaged in systematic abuses against people arrested for protesting in July as part of a plan to suppress dissent, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Tuesday that documents 130 cases of arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment of detainees, and abuse-ridden criminal prosecutions.
According to the report, many of the detainees were held 鈥渋ncommunicado for days or even weeks, violently arrested, and, in some cases, ill-treated during detention.鈥� Abuses in prison included being forced to 鈥渟quat naked, apparently deliberately deprived of sleep, brutally beaten, and held in cells without natural light鈥� or with little access to clean water.
The organization also says Cuban authorities systematically violated detainees鈥� rights to a fair trial, conducting summary trials and denying access to lawyers.
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