Court called in Brussels against the blockade of Cuba

Havana, July 17 (RHC) European, Latin American and American legal, social, trade union and political organizations launched this Monday at the Brussels-2023 Peoples' Summit the call for an International Tribunal against the Blockade of Cuba.

On the first day of the forum of European, Latin American and Caribbean social movements and progressive forces, the leader of the European Left Party (PIE) Maite Mola read, accompanied by some twenty representatives of associations, the summons to the Tribunal scheduled for 16 and 17 November in Brussels.

According to the appeal, the Court intends to denounce the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on the island for more than six decades, a policy that it describes as illegal and inhumane. Likewise, it seeks to strengthen the movement against this siege in Europe and the United States.

"We are sure that this action will serve to add voices to the defense of the democratic rights, sovereignty and freedom of the peoples", underlines the text, signed by the International Association of Democratic Jurists, the Group of the Left in Parliament European Union, the PIE and the National Lawyers Guild of the United States.

Likewise, the Forum of Lawyers of the Left-Democratic Lawyers Network of Spain, the National Conference of Lawyers of the United States, the Movement of Solidarity with Cuba in Europe, union organizations and associations of Cubans residing in the old continent signed the initiative.

The signatories denounced the extraterritorial nature of the blockade against Cuba and its the inclusion in Washington's unilateral list of countries sponsoring terrorism, which reinforce the violation of International Law of the US policy towards the island.

MEP Manu Pineda announced that the headquarters of the International Tribunal against the Blockade of Cuba will be the European Parliament. He considered it necessary to give a legal treatment "to what is obviously a crime, and a crime has to be tried and sentenced."

On behalf of the island, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando González, thanked the solidarity and the decision to organize the Tribunal. (Source: PL)