Dokument #1199947
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Please find attached copies of Responses to
Information Requests CUB10032 of 10 January 1992, CUB11569 of 21
August 1992 and CUB12848 of 18 January 1993. These responses cite
Cuban authorities and human rights organizations as stating that
although travel abroad may be denied to the relatives of traitors,
families of defectors have been allowed to travel and reunite.
These responses stress the Cuban authorities' position that each
application for passport or migration is evaluated on an individual
basis by the Dirección de Inmigración y
Extranjería, and that a general answer on questions of
travel and documentation cannot be provided.
Also attached, please find sections of the
Country Reports 1992 and the Critique 1991 that refer
to freedom to travel abroad and emigration from Cuba. The first
document reports for 1992 that the Cuban government allowed a few
thousand people to emigrate, including hundreds of ex-political
prisoners, adding that the government also refused permission to
travel abroad to persons whose cases are considered sensitive and
recently denied exit visas to the families of two air force
defectors (Country Reports 1992 1993, 378). The Critique
1991 reports that many dissidents were allowed to emigrate in
1991, although the source describes Cuba's emigration policies as
"overly restrictive" (Critique 1991 1992, 79).
Recent changes to the attached information
and additional or corroborating information could not be found
among the sources currently available to the DIRB.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
Critique: Review of the Department of
State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1991.
1992. New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 378.
Critique: Review of the Department of
State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1991.
1992. New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, p. 79.
Documentation, Information and Research
Branch (DIRB), Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa. 18 January
1993. Response to Information Request CUB12848.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC), Ottawa. 21 August 1992. Response to
Information Request CUB11569.
. 10 January 1992. Response to
Information Request CUB10032.