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Black list of human rights

protester against government, Maduro, Maduro Venezuela



The Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela repeated in the "black list" which leads from the era of the late Hugo Chavez. And it does so for the same "policy changes involving legal and administrative restrictions that affect the enjoyment of human rights" in the country as well as "structural" problems that lead to the "provisional status of judges and prosecutors."
"Any misuse, according to the Commission, the criminal law and the effect on freedom"



Added to this is a 'misuse', according to the Commission, the criminal law and the "impact on freedom of expression", along with other economic situations as "grave situations of insecurity and violence in prisons ".
Absence of free elections in Cuba



Nor in the case of Cuba the reasons to stay in the "black list" vary substantially from previous years: from marked deficiencies in the freedom of expression of the absence of "free and fair elections" among others due to the "lack of plurality and independence and the absence of a framework of free access to various sources of information. "



The Commission also expresses its concern about continuing in Cuba of the tactic of "short-term arbitrary detention" of dissidents, and the persistence of "physical abuse, threats, harassment and acts of repudiation" against human rights defenders in island.



Though considered an "advance" against previous immigration reform law that took effect last year, noted that the new rules still set several assumptions regarding



"National defense and security" that allow the state to deny off the island to a Cuban citizen.
Public intimidation of government critics in Ecuador
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In the case of Ecuador, the IACHR condemned the increasing limitation of freedom of expression following the Communications Law, approved in 2013, and for "stigmatizing statements" government of Rafael Correa through public media against those " or informed they thought critically about state actions, "among others.



In Honduras, contained in the "black list" since the coup in 2009 that ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya, the IACHR considers some of the "purpose or effect" of the human rights violations that occurred in that then "they continued, persisted and become more complex the situation in the country" Central.
Abusing Haitian immigrants in Dominican Republic
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Further notes with "concern" persistent "structural conditions" on public safety situation, independence of the judiciary and other branches of government, the "high levels of violence and impunity" or the situation of freedom of expression .



Dominican Republic is on the list created by the controversy regarding the theft of Dominican nationality to tens of thousands of Haitians born in the country by a decision of the Constitutional Court has been repeatedly denounced by the Commission as a violation of the right to nationality and nondiscrimination.
United States remains imprisoned without trial in Guantanamo



The Commission also alleged in its report, presented by its president, Tracy Robinson, the United States still refuses to visit the prison agency unrestricted, so rejected his offer for a trip to the facility without authorization talk to the prisoners.



Among others, the Commission asked the U.S. Obama administration to expedite the release of detainees who had already approved them moving and will house the prisoners on trial "under appropriate conditions of detention, giving guarantees because relevant process ".

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