Report No. 69 (2013) IACHR. Petition No. 12.102 (Cuba)

• Petition Number: 12.102
• Report Number: 69
• Year: 2013
• Alleged Victim: Raymundo Guerrero Marrero
• Case Type: Archive
• Respondent State: Cuba
• Court: Inter-American Comission of Human Rights

REPORT No. 69/13

DECISION TO ARCHIVE

PETITION 12.102

RAYMUNDO GUERRERO MARRERO

CUBA

July 16, 2013

ALLEGED VICTIM: Raymundo Guerrero Marrero

PETITIONER: Raymundo Guerrero Marrero

ALLEGED VIOLATIONS: Articles IV, XII, XIV, XXIII, and XXVI of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man

DATE PROCESSING BEGAN: February 3, 1999

1. POSITION OF THE PETITIONER

1. On January 8, 1999, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received a complaint lodged by Raymundo Guerrero Marrero over the alleged violation by the State of Cuba of his rights to freedom of investigation, opinion, expression, and dissemination; to education; to work and to fair remuneration; to property; to protection against arbitrary detention; and to due process of law, all rights established in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.

2. In his complaint, the petitioner indicated that in the early morning hours of January 24, 1989, an agent of the State entered his home and attacked him violently. The situation was said to have led police agents to take the alleged victim to the Zapata Police Station. The petitioner reported that he was later tried by a Military Court for the crime of causing injury and that from January 24, 1989, until the date of the trial he was held in custody in different precincts in Havana. He added that some months after being released, he received a communication from the Havana Provincial Court in which he was informed that the ownership deed for his house had been annulled and a new one had been issued in which he did not appear as the owner.

3. In addition, the petitioner alleged that in 1991 he signed, along with a group of intellectuals, a declaration to be presented before the National Assembly of the People’s Power, and that as a result, he was fired from his two jobs, defamed in the press, and punished by being barred from practicing the profession of journalism.

2. POSITION OF THE STATE

4. The State of Cuba did not present any information.

3. PROCESSING BY THE IACHR

5. The petition was...