The petition, accompanied by a dossier of human rights violations, was presented to the Commission at its offices in Washington DC by Cuban political refugees Alina Brouwer and Ricardo Boffil.

Guillermo Fariñas, a Cuban dissident who has been on a hunger strike for over a month to demand the release of all Cuban political prisoners, has presented in Washington D.C. his formal international denunciation before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against what he calls “the illegitimate government of Fidel and Raúl Castro.”

Fariñas bases his accusation on “the legislated, programmed and systematically executed violations of all universally recognized human rights against my family and me that began on January, 1st, 1959.”

The dossier is being presented before the Commission by Alina Brouwer Guerra and Professor Ricardo Bofill, both political refugees from Cuba under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and permanent residents in the United States. Bofill is a founding member of the Cuban Committee For Human Rights (Havana, 1976).

Transcription of Mr. Fariñas’s letter to the IACHR :

From Guillermo Fariñas,
I, Guillermo Fariñas, Cuban born, currently residing in the city of Santa Clara, in command of all my mental faculties, but with visibly deteriorating physical health due to a hunger strike I initiated on February 24th, 2010, and bedridden, wish to present before this Commission my formal accusation against the illegitimate government of Fidel and Raúl Castro for the legislated, programmed and systematically executed violations of all universally recognized human
rights against my family and me that began on January, 1st, 1959.

The accompanying dossier shall be presented before the commission by Alina Brouwer Guerra, Cuban, and recognized as a political refugee under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ms. Brouwer received political asylum in Spain in 1997, and is now a legal permanent resident in the United States; and by Professor Ricardo Bofill Pagés, Cuban, political refugee, permanent resident in the United States, and a founding member of the Cuban Committee For Human Rights.

Guillermo Fariñas Hernández
Santa Clara, Cuba. March 27th, 2010