Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Policy Event: Hearing: Families Torn Apart: Human Rights and U.S. Restrictions on Cuban-American Travel
From http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1032
Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Chairman
You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building .
Date:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time:
10:00 AM
Subject:
Families Torn Apart: Human Rights and U.S. Restrictions on Cuban-American Travel
witnesses:
Panel I:
The Honorable Jo Ann Emerson
U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Ray LaHood
U.S. House of Representatives
*** The Honorable Thaddeus G. McCotter
U.S. House of Representatives
Panel II:
Ms. Marlene Arzola
Cuban-American with Family in Cuba
Ms. Luisa Montero-Diaz
Cuban-American with Family in Cuba
Mr. Hector Palacios
Cuban Pro-Democracy Activist and Former Political Prisoner
Via video and phone conference
*** Ms. Sylvia Iriondo
President
Mothers Against Repression (M.A.R. Por Cuba)
*** The Honorable Armando Valladares
International Council
Human Rights Foundation
(Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights)
Panel III:
Mr. Philip Peters
Vice President
Lexington Institute
Francisco J. Hernandez, Ph.D.
President
Cuban American National Foundation
*** Mr. Ignacio Sosa
Executive Board Member
Cuba Study Group
*** Ms. Ninoska P?rez Castell?n
Board Member
Cuban Liberty Council
***NOTE: Witnesses have been added.
- By Adam Isacson at 09/16/2008 - 16:22



