WASHINGTON: The US treasury announced sanctions on Friday in two Cuban police officials and all national revolutionary police for their role in suppressing anti-government demonstrations which began July 11.
The treasury named Director of NRP Oscar Callejas Valcarce and Deputy Director Eddy Sierra Arias to the blacklist sanction, which freezes the property they may have in the United States, and US transaction bars with them.
“The Ministry of Finance will continue to point and call with their names facilitating the involvement of the Cuban regime in serious human rights harassment,” said Andrea Gacki, director of the Main Sanction Unit of Treasury, the Office of Foreign Asset Control.
“Today’s actions serve to bear their responsibility responsibility for suppressing Cuba’s call for freedom and respect for human rights,” Gacki said.
On 11 and July 12, thousands of Cuba took to the streets, shouting “freedom,” “down with the dictatorship” and “we are hungry” in the biggest protest since the revolution that brought Fidel Castro in 1959.
Hundreds of people were arrested and many facial allegations of humiliation , Public Disorders, Vandalism and Coronavirus Pandemic Propagation Because it is allegedly marching without a face mask.
On July 24, a government official said that around 60 Cubans had been required to participate in the demonstration.
The treasury said NRP was the main unit of the Ministry of Home Affairs which was deployed to inhibit the demonstration, responsible for defeating a number of peaceful protesters, according to the financial department statement.
On Thursday the European Union called for Cuba to release the people arrested by “arbitrary” during protests.
“We are very concerned about this protest repression, and for the arrest of demonstrators and journalists,” Block 27 countries said in a statement.
“We urged (the Cuban government) to release all protesters who were arrested arbitrarily, to listen to the sounds of their citizens, and to be involved in the inclusive dialogue about their complaints.”