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The case of José Daniel Ferrer García in Cuba

2024/2805(RSP)·RSP·Official procedure file ↗

Resolution on a topical subject.

Summary

In this non-legislative resolution, Parliament addresses the case of human rights defender and opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia in Cuba, stating he was detained in July 2021 and has been held in isolation, incommunicado since March 2023 and reportedly in critical condition without access to medical care. It urges the Cuban regime to immediately and unconditionally release Ferrer and all persons politically and arbitrarily detained, and condemns the systematic human rights violations and the torture and ill-treatment perpetrated against political prisoners. It reiterates its call on the Council to apply the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (the EU Magnitsky Act) against those responsible and refers to the possibility of activating the PDCA suspension clause. Parliament instructs its President to forward the resolution to the Cuban regime, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative, the Commission, the Member States, the United Nations and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.

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Voted 19 Sep 2024

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Other votes on this text · 7 votes

Plenary amendments6 tabled on this text

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

  1. Amendment 1The LeftJoint motion for a resolution · Recital D (new)
    Amendment

    D. whereas the US economic, trade and financial blockade on Cuba constitutes a violation of the human rights of the Cuban people that qualifies as an act of economic warfare hindering the development of the Cuban people and the full achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);

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  2. Amendment 2The LeftJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 7 a (new)
    Amendment

    7a. Underlines that the United Nations General Assembly voted systematically in favour of lifting the US blockade by a large majority, with only two votes systematically against, the US and Israel; calls on the next US president to lift the blockade;

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  3. Amendment 3The LeftJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 7 b (new)
    Amendment

    7b. Calls on the US to immediately remove Cuba from its unilateral and illegitimate list of ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’;

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  4. Amendment 4Verts/ALE, S&DJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 6
    Current text

    6. Reiterates its previous positions regarding the possibility of activating the PDCA’s suspension clause, given that the core human rights clauses of the agreement have been continuously breached by the Cuban regime;

    Amendment

    6. Calls on the Government of Cuba to comply with its human rights obligations under the EU-Cuba Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement and the international human rights treaties that Cuba has adhered to; underlines the importance of holding regular human rights dialogues between the EU and Cuba with the full participation of independent Cuban civil society organisations;

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  5. Amendment 5Verts/ALE, S&DJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 6 a (new)
    Amendment

    6a. Calls on the US remove Cuba from the list of ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’;

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  6. Amendment 6Verts/ALE, S&DJoint motion for a resolution · Paragraph 6 b (new)
    Amendment

    6b. Calls for the immediate lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States of America;

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