{"id":234478,"date":"2021-02-11T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=234478"},"modified":"2021-02-11T10:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T15:19:26","slug":"human-rights-a-guide-for-dialogue-in-cuba-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/vox-populi\/human-rights-a-guide-for-dialogue-in-cuba-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights: A guide for dialogue in Cuba (IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we have said before, human rights can be a legal and ethical reference both for the functioning of the State and for the behavior of public officials, the projection and implementation of public policies, and especially the relationship between the political system and civil society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Cuba, since the entry into force of the 2019 Constitution, the protection, guarantee and defense of human rights are a state obligation, not just an ethical, political, economic and social horizon. In this new Cuban legislative framework there is the figure of legal bonding, which allows citizens to demand all their rights even when the norms of constitutional development are not defined. That is why it is important to know that human rights are already an obligation of the Cuban State.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XFeyNY967L\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/vox-populi\/human-rights-guide-for-dialogue-in-cuba-i\/\">Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (I)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Human rights: guide for dialogue in Cuba (I)&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/vox-populi\/human-rights-guide-for-dialogue-in-cuba-i\/embed\/#?secret=gygSXnKrk2#?secret=XFeyNY967L\" data-secret=\"XFeyNY967L\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I insist that the necessary political and cultural dialogue in Cuba must occur <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/vox-populi\/human-rights-guide-for-dialogue-in-cuba-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the auspices of human rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This approach would allow compliance with the Constitution of the Republic, which is the same as achieving socialist legality and democracy, as well as doing justice to the 44 international human rights instruments signed by Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us then analyze article 12 of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/es\/universal-declaration-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which has enormous significance in the current political context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As expressed in Art. 12:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2019, the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba incorporates these rights as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art. 48: \u201cAll persons have the right to have their personal and family privacy, their own image and voice, their honor and personal identity respected.\u201d<\/span><b>1<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art. 49: \u201cThe home is inviolable. It is not possible to enter someone else\u2019s dwelling without the permission of the person who inhabits it, except by express order of the competent authority, with the legal formalities and for a reason previously defined in the law.\u201d<\/span><b>2<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art. 50. \u201cCorrespondence and other forms of communication between people are inviolable. They can only be intercepted or searched by express order of the competent authority, in the cases and with the formalities established by law. The documents or information obtained in violation of this principle do not constitute evidence in any process.\u201d<\/span><b>3<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these rights were already contemplated in the Cuban Penal Code, specifically in Chapter II of Title IX \u201cCrimes against individual rights,\u201d entitled \u201cViolation of domicile and illegal search.\u201d The First Section, \u201cViolation of Residence,\u201d contains Art. 287.1, in addition to sections 2 and 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Art 287.1 it is regulated that:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnyone who, outside of the cases authorized by law, enters another\u2019s home without the express or tacit will of the resident, or remains in it against his or her manifest will, incurs a penalty of deprivation of freedom from three months to one year or a fine of one hundred to three hundred installments or both.\u201d<\/span><b>4<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 2 referring to this crime constitutes an aggravated figure of it, in cases where it is committed at night, in a deserted place or using violence or intimidation; while section 3 explains that the home that serves as a dwelling, as well as all its closed or fenced places, will be considered as \u201cdomicile.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For its part, Chapter III of the same Title, called \u201cViolation and Disclosure of the Secret of Correspondence,\u201d contains in its First Section Article 289.1, in addition to sections 2 and 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As regulated by Art. 289.1:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhoever, without being authorized, opens a letter, telegram, dispatch or any correspondence belonging to another, is punished with deprivation of freedom from three months to one year or a fine of one hundred to three hundred installments.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThe same penalty is incurred by those who, without being authorized, violate the secrecy of telephone communications.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cIf the crime is committed by an official or public employee, with abuse of his position, the sanction is deprivation of freedom from six months to two years or a fine of two hundred to five hundred installments.\u201d<\/span><b>5<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Second Section of this Chapter includes the \u201cRevelation of the Secret of Correspondence\u201d in Art. 290, sections 1 and 2, which defines as the author of this crime the person who reveals a known secret within any type of unaddressed correspondence the person who discovers this content. For this crime, penalties of up to one year of deprivation of freedom are foreseen and in case of having been committed by a public official the sanction can contemplate up to two years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This broad protection of the aforementioned rights, both at the constitutional and criminal levels, should alert individuals and institutions that uncover private conversations that occurred on social networks, which because they have not been previously authorized are secret until proven otherwise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to remember that in this same Title of the Penal Code we also find the crimes against the free emission of thought, against the rights of assembly, demonstration, association, complaint and petition, against the right of ownership, against the freedom of religion and against the right to equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Crimes against honor in the Cuban Penal Code<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Title XII of the Penal Code completes the protection of the human rights enshrined in the Constitution that have occupied us in this analysis. The crimes against honor are: defamation, slander and insult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four sections of Article 318 of the Cuban Penal Code specifically regulate the crime of defamation. Number one establishes:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnyone who, before third parties, imputes to another a behavior, a fact or a characteristic, contrary to honor&#8230;is punished with deprivation of freedom of three months to one year&#8230;.\u201d<\/span><b>6<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 2 clarifies that there will be no penalty if the accused shows that the allegations made are true, that he had reasons to believe that they were true or that he acted in defense of social interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 3 prohibits the action of the accused person from being justified if his intention to denigrate the victim of the crime is manifested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In number 4 of these sections referring to the crime of defamation, the court is directed that, in the event that the accused has not been able to demonstrate the veracity of his accusations or has not retracted them, he must record the fact in the sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the perpetrator of a crime against honor affirms something he knows to be a lie, in addition to affecting the image of the damaged person\u2014as well as his social and professional recognition\u2014 he then commits the crime of slander. Insult is already typified when the sole objective of the offender is to hurt the victim\u2019s feelings.<\/span><b>7<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lastly, the honor referred to in Art. 48 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba can also be offended when data on people that are not up-to-date or that are false are stored and used in public files or public records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cuban Magna Carta, in its Chapter VI \u201cGuarantees of Rights,\u201d contains Article 97, which:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201crecognizes the right of everyone to access their personal data in records, files or other databases and information of a public nature, as well as to interest in its non-disclosure and obtain its due correction, rectification, modification, updating or cancellation.\u201d<\/span><b>8<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This guarantee, long-awaited in Cuban law, is known in the world of constitutional law as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">habeas data<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and now it needs a law that develops its instrumental details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, Editora Pol\u00edtica publishers, Havana, 2019, Page 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>2<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Idem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Idem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>4<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rivero Garc\u00eda, Danilo and Bertot Yero, Mar\u00eda Caridad, Criminal Code of the Republic of Cuba, Law 62 of 1987, Annotated with the Provisions of the Governing Council of the Supreme People\u2019s Court, ONBC Editions, Havana, 2013, Page 279.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>5<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ibid., P. 280.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>6<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ibid., P. 304.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>7<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ibid., P. 305.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>8<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Constitution of the Republic, Work Cited, Page 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we have said before, human rights can be a legal and ethical reference both for the functioning of the State and for the behavior of public officials, the projection and implementation of public policies, and especially the relationship between the political system and civil society. 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