HRF condemns the harassment and threats against Gorki Águila

HRF condemns the harassment and threats against Gorki Águila
[17-08-2015 00:24:39]
Human Rights Foundation

(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly
condemns the harassment and threats made by Cuban state security agents
against Gorki Águila, lead singer of the anti-dictatorship rock band
Porno para Ricardo.
The singer and human rights advocate was arbitrarily arrested on August
5 and released after a few hours with the warning that if he were to
continue supporting the Ladies in White, he would not be allowed to
leave the country. The musician was also arrested last May for calling
for the release of Cuban graffiti artist Danilo "El Sexto" Maldonado, a
recipient of the Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent,
who has been imprisoned since December.

"Both of these artists excel at irreverent criticism, which is why they
are frequent targets of a tyrannical and humorless regime that has
muzzled Cuban artists for 56 years," said HRF president Thor Halvorssen.
"In totalitarian Cuba, the freedom of expression of artists is curtailed
by article 39 of the constitution, which states that 'artistic
creativity is free as long as its content is not contrary to the
Revolution,'" he added.

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonpartisan nonprofit
organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a
focus on closed societies.

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