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As América Tevé reported tonight, Colombia is pulling Cuban healthcare workers from its country, just days after Cuba's medical mission in Mexico was also reported to have returned to Cuba. See around 1:45 to hear GLA's efforts mentioned, and see GLA founding attorney Jason I. Poblete's comments:  The family happily reunited. Source: Facebook. Yesterday, on June 25, 2020, evangelical Pastor Ramón Rigal Rodríguez, of Guantánamo, Cuba, was released after over a year of unlawful imprisonment. Pastor Rigal and his wife, Adya Expósito, were sentenced in May 2019 to two and one-and-a-half years of prison for homeschooling their children.
In close collaboration with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) in Purcellville, Virginia, and with Cuban religious leaders, the Global Liberty Alliance (GLA) has been advocating for the release of the Rigal parents since their trial. In late April 2019, the GLA and the HSLDA petitioned the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for precautionary measures to protect the Rigal family and press Cuba to release them. While the Rigal family is finally reunited, as Radio Televisión Martí has said, the reporter who covered their trial, GLA client Roberto Quiñones, is still unjustly imprisoned. You can find more information about GLA’s advocacy for the Rigal-Expósito family here. GLA is committed to defending fundamental rights, such as freedom of religion and of belief. You can learn more about GLA’s work on our Facebook page or our Twitter account.  The Global Liberty Alliance has received disturbing new information from the Association of Free Yorubas of Cuba (Asociación de Yorubas Libres de Cuba) documenting numerous violations of fundamental rights on the island. The GLA is closely reviewing the material and is collaborating with the Free Yorubas to hold Cuban regime officials to account.
On April 29, 2020, the GLA urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to grant Precautionary Measures on behalf of Dr. Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces (see cover letter below). An independent journalist and former practicing attorney, Dr. Quiñones has been unlawfully imprisoned in Cuba since September 11, 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded Dr. Quiñones’s health status.
Dr. Quiñones is serving a year’s prison sentence for covering the show trial of homeschooler parents Pastors Ramón Rigal and Adya Expósito. On April 26, his son, who resides in Virginia, U.S.A., expressed concern for his father in a statement: “My father’s health condition is rapidly deteriorating under the terrible conditions to which he is subject in the Cuban jail. I want to ask the Cuban government to release my father again, especially now with this terrible situation with the virus, on the island and around the world.” A “precautionary measure” is ruling by an international tribunal such as the IACHR directing a state, in this case Cuba, to take (or refrain from taking) certain measures in order to prevent or stop human rights violations in serious and urgent situations where the life and safety of the person are at stake. Trump administration officials have repeatedly advocated for Dr. Quiñones. You can learn more about Dr. Quiñones’s case, including the U.S. government response, on the GLA Case Work page. América TV featured GLA's action; you can see the video here. ADNCuba covered the story, as well, here. 2020.04.29 - Cover Note Qui... by Global Liberty Alliance on Scribd
On April 16, the Global Liberty Alliance (GLA) called for the Cuban government to free Roberto Quiñones, imprisoned journalist, poet, and lawyer, to the custody of his family. GLA issued this statement in support of Mr. Quiñones's family, who are no longer be able to visit him in prison because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and are concerned for his health.
2020.04.16 - PR GLA Calls t... by Veronica Mayer on Scribd  ¿Cómo me van a hacer romper la cuarentena para algo que no es tan urgente, y que no es nada de vida o muerte?
- Rev. Alain Toledano (en la foto) La Alianza por la Libertad Global expresa su solidaridad con los líderes religiosos que han sido censurados y perseguidos por el régimen comunista de Cuba. El régimen no sólo los ha “controlado”, no sólo los ha detenido incontables veces, no sólo les ha prohibido aparecer en la televisión junto a los líderes religiosos oficialistas. Tenemos entendido que al menos dos pastores evangélicos, en provincias distintas, han sido acusados de propagar el coronavirus, a pesar de no haber salido de sus casas en más de 20 días. A cada uno le ocurrió algo parecido: lo sacaron de su casa en plena cuarentena, lo detuvieron y lo situaron junto a otros donde podía contraer la enfermedad. La táctica pertenece a una larga guerra de atrición que han librado el Partido Comunista de Cuba y su Oficina de Asuntos Religiosos, la “policía de religión” en Cuba. Esta táctica ya se ha visto en la pandemia con periodistas y otros disidentes. Muchos más, como el Pastor Ramón Rigal, siguen encarcelados por actuar de acuerdo a sus creencias. El desprecio de la Seguridad del Estado de Cuba por la salud y bienestar de sus ciudadanos en la pandemia COVID-19 es reprensible. GLA seguirá ayudándoles a resistir esta represión indebida, resaltando estos abusos y pidiendo cuentas a los violadores de derechos. # # # How can they make me break quarantine for something that’s not that urgent, not a life-or-death situation? - Rev. Alain Toledano (pictured) The Global Liberty Alliance (GLA) expresses our solidarity with the religious leaders who have been censored and persecuted by the Cuban Communist regime. The regime not only has them “controlled,” detained them countless times, blocked them from appearing on TV alongside state-sanctioned religious organizations. We have heard heard that at least two evangelical pastors, in different provinces, were accused of spreading the coronavirus, even though they’d not left their homes in over 20 days. Each one experienced something similar: he was taken from his home during full-blown quarantine, was detained, and was placed with others, where he could catch the illness. These cruel tactics are part of a long-standing war of attrition waged by the Communist Party and its Office of Religious Affairs, Cuba’s religious police. These tactics have already been used during the pandemic against journalists and other dissidents. Many others, such as Pastor Ramón Rigal, are languishing in prison for acting in accordance with their beliefs. The indifference of Cuba’s State Security for the health and well-being of its people in the COVID-19 pandemic is reprehensible. GLA will continue to help them fight back against this undue repression by holding these people to account. 
La Alianza por la Libertad Global (GLA), Nicaragua Primero USA y Movimiento Campesino de Nicaragua emiten esta Declaración Conjunta al Gobierno Ortega-Murillo de Nicaragua: Su manejo de la crisis COVID-19 en el país está perjudicando a su pueblo. Lean el texto completo más abajo.
Global Liberty Alliance (GLA), Nicaragua Primero USA, and the Nicaraguan Farmers Movement issue this Joint Statement to Nicaragua’s Ortega-Murillo government: Your handling of the COVID-19 crisis in your country is endangering your people. Read the full text below.
 La Alianza por la Libertad Global (GLA) y el Movimiento Campesino de Nicaragua, liderado por Medardo Mairena Sequeira, anunciamos una colaboración. Juntos, estamos comprometidos con:
La Alianza por la Libertad Global se dedica a defender los derechos fundamentales del individuo, a la libre empresa y al imperio de la ley. En diciembre de 2018, la Ley NICA Act, la cual sanciona a los infractores de estos derechos en el régimen Ortega-Murillo, entró en vigor después de la aprobación por unanimidad del Congreso Estadounidense, en parte, gracias a los esfuerzos educativos de la GLA. El Movimiento Campesino de Nicaragua, organizado desde 2014, defiende los derechos de los campesinos contra el régimen autoritario de Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo. Para más información sobre el Movimiento, Ud. puede consultar su página Facebook. —-- GLA and the Farmers’ Movement of Nicaragua, led by Medardo Mairena Sequeira, announce our collaboration. Together, we are dedicated to furthering respect for human dignity, defending the rights of all Nicaraguans suffering oppression under Daniel Ortega’s regime, and fighting political persecution and corruption. The Global Liberty Alliance is committed to fundamental individual rights, free enterprise, and the rule of law. In December 2018, the NICA Act sanctioning violators of those rights in the Ortega regime was passed by President Trump after unanimous Congressional approval, in part thanks to GLA education efforts about the law and its importance to combating corruption in Nicaragua. The Farmers’ Movement of Nicaragua (Movimiento Campesino de Nicaragua) has been organized since 2014 to defend the rights of farmers against the authoritarian regime of Daniel Ortega. For more information about the Movimiento Campesino de Nicaragua, see their Facebook page. 
On March 10, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) named Cuba as a Tier 2 violator of religious freedoms in its 2019 Annual Report. This Report enumerates regular serious violations of freedom of conscience on the island, spearheaded by its Office of Religious Affairs and State Security. GLA joins its voice to the USCIRF’s recommendations of sanctions so that for the U.S. government protect freedom of worship in Cuba: 1) deny visas to religious freedom abusers, especially Religious Affairs Head, Caridad Diego; 2) facilitate the U.S. visa application process for Cuban religious leaders, whether they are officially recognized or not; 3) encourage other countries to bring up Cuba’s freedom of worship violations in every discussion with or about Cuba. See press release below for more information. Spanish below press release. El 10 del presente, la Comisión de Estados Unidos para la Libertad Religiosa Internacional (“USCIRF” por su nombre en inglés) nombró a Cuba como infractor de Nivel 2 contra la libertad religiosa en su Informe Anual de 2019. Este Informe delinea una serie de violaciones graves y regulares de la libertad de conciencia en la isla, encabezadas por la Oficina de Asuntos Religiosos (OAR) y la Seguridad del Estado. GLA se une a la USCIRF en importunar al gobierno de los EE.UU. a defender la libertad del culto en Cuba con unas sanciones: 1) denieguen visas a infractores contra la libertad religiosa, en particular Caridad Diego, jefa de la OAR; 2) faciliten la solicitud de visas americanas para líderes religiosos cubanos oficiales o extraoficiales; 3) animen a otros países a tratar las violaciones de libertad de culto en toda discusión con o sobre Cuba. Véase el comunicado de prensa a continuación:
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