Elizardo Sánchez

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title: "Elizardo Sánchez" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cuban-activists", "cuban-dissidents", "human-rights-in-cuba", "1944-births", "living-people", "political-prisoners-in-cuba"] description: "Cuban activist and philosophy professor" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizardo_Sánchez" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Cuban activist and philosophy professor ::

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name	Elizardo Sánchez
image	Elizardo Sánchez.jpg
birth_name	Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco
birth_date
birth_place	Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
occupation	President of the Cuban Commission for National Reconciliation and Human Rights. Former university professor. Political dissenter and activist.
known	Dissident, activist, prisoner of conscience since 1980
website	http://www.unpacu.org/
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| name = Elizardo Sánchez | image = Elizardo Sánchez.jpg | other_names = | birth_name = Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco | birth_date = | birth_place = Santiago de Cuba, Cuba | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = President of the Cuban Commission for National Reconciliation and Human Rights. Former university professor. Political dissenter and activist. | years active = | employer = | known = Dissident, activist, prisoner of conscience since 1980 | works = | height = | predecessor = | successor = | spouse = | parents = | awards = | website = http://www.unpacu.org/ | relatives = Elizardo Sánchez Santa Cruz-Pacheco (Santiago de Cuba, 29 June 1944) is a former philosophy professor at the University of Havana, president of the Cuban Commission for National Reconciliation and Human Rights (CCDHRN), a human rights organisation founded in 1987 whose work has been recognized internationally by receiving the Human Rights Watch prize in 1991 and the Human Rights Prize of the French Republic in 1996.

A member of the coordination council of the Cuban Patriotic Union, which has been described by the United States State Department as the "largest group of Cuban opposition", the organization pursues a peaceful opposition to the repression of civil liberties in Cuba.

As a notable dissident and human rights activist in Cuba, he has been declared numerous times to be a prisoner of conscience since 1989. He has become over thirty years a worldwide reference for human rights organizations and international press about the state of human rights in the island nation and the situation of prisoners of conscience.

Biography

Prisoner of Conscience

According to a 1989 International Amnesty report, Elizardo Sánches was detained in April 1980 and sentenced to six years in prison, charged with spreading "enemy propaganda". He was set free on 29 December 1985 but was arrested again, along with two other members of CCDHRN, in September 1986 and imprisoned without formal charges or trial until he was released in May 1987.

References

References

1. (August 1989). "Legal concern: Professor Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz". Amnistía Internacional.
2. Agir Ensemble pour les Droits de l’Homme. (2000). "CCDHRN Comisión Cubana de Derechos y Reconciliación Nacional".
3. (27 February 2013). "Concluye la fusión entre FANTU y UNPACU". Diario de Cuba.
4. Unión Patriótica de Cuba. (27 February 2013). "FANTU y UNPACU desvelan organigrama de la nueva UNPACU".
5. Malvar, Anibal. (4 January 2014). "Liberado el líder de la disidencia cubana tras ser detenido en su casa de madrugada". El Confidencial.
6. "Sobre UNPACU: la creación de UNPACU". Web Oficial Unión Patriótica de Cuba.
7. (September 1989). "Further information on UA 298/89 (AMR 25/13/89, 7 August) - Cuba: Legal concern / Medical concern: Professor Elizardo Sanchez Santa Cruz". Amnistía Internacional Report.
8. (1989–2013). "24 Documentos de Amnistía Internacional sobre Elizardo Sánchez". Amnistía Internacional.
9. (2009–2013). "Documentos de Human Rights Watch en que se cita como fuente al CCDHRN". Human Rights Watch Reports.
10. (June 2011). "Cuba no debe continuar encarcelando a disidentes pacíficos". Human Rights Watch.

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