WRAP Castro's daughter against dealth penalty in Cuba

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• published: 21 Jul 2015
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1. Wide shot of posters against death penalty 2. Wide shot of Alina Fernandez during an interview 3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro: "I've been a dissident in Cuba for some years before leaving the island. I've never stopped telling the world in every way I could what is the reality of my country and this is what I'm doing now. After this last repressive wave which has been so important in the media I'm going to push for the international community, the US and the Americas to act." 4. Posters against death penalty 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro: "Three persons have been executed lately in Cuba, because they tried to leave the country, to escape the country, which is extreme. And also we had in March the incarceration of 75 dissidents, Cuban dissidents. So that's what we are doing, we are trying to educate people on the reality of Cuba and human rights in Cuba. They are in solitary confinement they are not receiving medical attention they are just there with rats and all the insects you could imagine, so it's really really awful." 6. Wide shot of press conference 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Klayman, Lawyer of Alina Fernandez: "Where Fidel Castro has executed some of our clients and where he threatens to execute more, this is a technique which is used by totalitarian regimes to scare the people and that's of great concern to Judicial Watch and the Cuban people." 8. Close up of t-shirts 9. Wide shot of press conference 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Larry Klayman, Lawyer of Alina Fernandez: "We want them to be freed and we are lobbying various European governments to see that that can happen, as well as the Vatican. We just came from Vatican Radio and gave an interview. We asked that that interview be given to the Pope and we asked for his personal intervention to free the 75 dissidents." 11. Alina Fernandez and Larry Klayman sitting together 12. Cutaway of photographers 13. Wide shot of Sergio D'Elia, Secretary General of Hands Off Cain Association, talking at press conference 14. Various of press conference 15. Various close-ups of Hands Off Cain 2003 report "The Death Penalty Worldwide" STORYLINE: The dissident daughter of Fidel Castro has called on the international community to put pressure on the Cuban leader to release people imprisoned under the regime. Alina Fernandez and Larry Klayman, who is the chairman of the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, are on a tour of Europe campaigning for the release of Cubans imprisoned by Fidel Castro. Earlier this year, the Cuban government rounded up and sentenced 75 dissidents to long prison terms on charges of working with American officials to undermine the island's socialist system. The opponents have denied the accusations. This year, Cuba also restored the death penalty and executed three people. Fernandez and Klayman spoke at a press conference in Rome, held by the human rights group called the Hands Off Cain Association, which was presenting its 2003 report, "The Death Penalty Worldwide". The report concluded that the number of executions worldwide had "drastically diminished" in the past few years. In 2002 there were 4,078 executions worldwide - a decrease from the 2001 total of 4,700, according to figures in the report. It listed China, Iran and Iraq as the three countries that executed the most people. The report also stated that several countries abolished the death penalty or observed a moratorium on executions, continuing what it called "the positive trend of the last ten years." You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f89206370870ef6d8eacc829f4c3981a Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork