tortured by being placed in a boarded up, dark, damp cell. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: juan wilfredo soto, a peaceful activist died two days after the revolutionary. activist agents brutally beat him in 2007. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: in a recent report the united states committee against torture criticized the lack of independence between the executive, legislative and judicial branches, lack of information on the deathnd police custody of juan wilfredo soto and requested an impartial investigation of the deaths of 202 prisoners that occurred in cuban jails between 2010 and 2011. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: extermination against those who descend and/or oppose the castros is the policy of the state. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: the path for a true cuban civil society is full of obstacles. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: violation of fundamental rights are enshrined in the constitution of the republic of china. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: the penal code includes articles with ambiguous provisions such as precriminal social dangers, which are used to pros