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prisoners, and to protest the current policy of the Euro-
pean Union toward the Cuban Government; 
Whereas the Cuban regime mobilized its repressive state se-
curity apparatus to intimidate and harass the peaceful 
demonstrators in order to prevent prodemocracy activists 
from reaching the French Embassy; 
Whereas the Cuban regime arrested and detained many who 
were planning on attending the peaceful protest of July 
22 in front of the French Embassy, including Martha 
Beatriz Roque Cabello, Fe´lix Antonio Bonne Carcasse´s, 
Rene Go´mez Manzano, Jose Javier Baeza Dis, Marı´a de 
los A´ngeles Borrego, Ernesto Cola´s Garcı´a, Emma Maria 
Alonso Del Monte, Jose Escuredo Marrero, Uldarico Gar-
cia, Yusimi Gil Portel, Oscar Mario Gonza´lez Pe´rez, 
Humberto Guerra, Luis Cesar Guerra, Julio Cesar Lo´pez 
Rodrı´guez, Miguel Lo´pez Santos, Jacqueline Montes de 
Oca, Raul Martı´nez Prieto, Ricardo Medina Salabarrı´a, 
Francisco Moure Saladrigas, Georgina Noa Montes, 
Niurka Maria Pen˜a Rodrı´guez, Luis Manuel Pen˜alver, 
Pastor Pe´rez Sa´nchez, Jesu´s Adolfo Reyes Sa´nchez, Glo-
ria Cristina Rodrı´guez Gonza´lez, Juan Mario Rodrı´guez 
Guillen, Miguel Valde´s Tamayo, Santiago Valdeolla 
Pe´rez, and Jesu´s Alejandro Victore Molina; 
Whereas Rene Go´mez Manzano, a distinguished leader of the 
struggle for freedom in Cuba, and other prodemocracy 
activists, continue to be detained without cause; 
Whereas hundreds of political prisoners and prisoners of con-
science languish in the Cuban regime’s prisons for the 
crime of seeking democracy for Cuba; 
Whereas thousands of others languish in Cuba’s totalitarian 
prisons accused of ‘‘common crimes’’, such as illegally at-
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tempting to leave the country and violating the norms of 
the totalitarian economic system, who should be recog-
nized as prisoners of conscience because they are being 
jailed for attempting to exercise personal freedoms; 
Whereas the Cuban regime has arrested more than 400 
young Cubans, from late 2004 through June of 2005, 
and according to the Cuban regime, the arrests were car-
ried out as a ‘‘measure of pre-delinquent security’’; 
Whereas the Cuban regime has continued to repress attempts 
by the Cuban people to bring democratic change to the 
island and denies universally recognized liberties, includ-
ing freedom of speech, association, movement, and the 
press; 
Whereas the Cuban Government remains designated as one 
of 6 state sponsors of terrorism by the United States De-
partment of State; 
Whereas the Cuban Government continues to provide safe 
harbor to fugitives from United States law enforcement 
agencies and to international terrorists; 
Whereas the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which 
establishes global human rights standards, asserts that 
all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and 
rights, and that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary ar-
rest or detention; 
Whereas the Cuban regime engages in torture and other 
cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment, including ex-
tended periods of solitary confinement and denial of nu-
tritional and medical attention, according to the Depart-
ment of State’s Country Report on Human Rights 2004; 
Whereas the personal representative of the United Nations 
Human Rights Commissioner has not been allowed by the
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Cuban regime to enter the island to carry out the man-
date assigned by the United Nations Human Right Com-
mission in its resolution of 2002/18 of 19 April 2002, 
and reaffirmed in resolutions 2003/13 of 17 April 2003, 
2004/11 of 15 April 2004, and 2005/12 of 14 April 
2005; and 
Whereas the Cuban regime continues to violate the rights en-
shrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 
the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, and 
other international and regional human rights agree-
ments, and has violated the noted Resolutions of the 
United Nations Commission on Human Rights: Now, 
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) condemns the gross human rights violations 
committed by the Cuban regime; 
(2) calls on the Secretary of State to initiate an 
international solidarity campaign on behalf of the imme-
diate release of all Cuban political prisoners; 
(3) supports the right of the Cuban people to exer-
cise fundamental political and civil liberties, including 
freedom of expression, assembly, association, movement, 
the press, and the right to multiparty elections; 
(4) calls on the European Union to reexamine its 
current policy toward the Cuban regime, before June of 
2006; and 
(5) calls on the United States Permanent Rep-
resentative to the United Nations, and other inter-
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national organizations, to work with the member coun-
tries of the United Nations Commission on Human 
Rights (UNCHR) throughout the 62d session of the 
UNCHR in Geneva, Switzerland, to ensure a resolution 
that includes the strongest possible condemnation of the 
July 2005 measures of extreme repression on opposition 
activists and of all the human rights violations com-
mitted by the Cuban regime.
Attest:
Clerk.