Miami (EFE).- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ruled this Monday that there are “serious and sufficient indications” to conclude that Cuban state agents participated in the death of opponents Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero in 2012.
“Consequently, the IACHR concludes that the (Cuban) State is responsible for the violation of the right established in Article I of the American Declaration (of Human Rights) to the detriment of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero,” underlines the organization of the system Inter-American in a report on the case.
The first of the report’s recommendations is that Cuba should adopt “financial compensation and satisfaction measures” for the victims of the human rights violations committed in this case, who are the families of the opponents and the Spanish politician Ángel Carromero.
According to the Cuban authorities, Payá and Cepero died in a vehicle accident caused by Carromero’s reckless driving on a Cuban highway on July 22, 2012, but their families denounced from the beginning that it was an “attack” and sued the State of Cuba before the IACHR in 2013.