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 103 STAT. 1260 PUBLIC LAW 101-167—NOV. 21, 1989 IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN DEFENSE ARTICLES FROM POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, AND HUNGARY SEC. 599A. Notwithstanding section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2278) or any other provision of law, any article that— (1) is a defense article for purposes of section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act, (2) is from Poland, Hungary, or Czechoslovakia, (3) Was imported or temporarily imported into the United States before June 30, 1989, by, or on behalf of, a museum or educational institution that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code, (4) was manufactured at least 20 years before its importation into the United States, (5) has been disabled so that no weapon or weapons system is \ functional, and (6) is to be used only for display to the public by the museum or educational institution for educational purposes, shall be considered to have been lawfully imported into the United States and shall be permitted to remain in the United States, and the museum or educational institution shall not be subject to any penalty by reason of such importation. HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA SEC. 599B. (1) FINDINGS. —The Congress finds that— (A) the United Nations in 1989 issued its first report on humans rights in Cuba this year, the result of a year-long investigation that concluded on the 30th year of Fidel Castro's rise to power; (B) the report extensively documented across-the-board human rights abuses that include cases of torture, missing people, religious persecution, violations of civil and political rights and violations of economic and social rights; (C) the United Nations received 137 complaints of "torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment"; (D) among the abuses reported to the United Nations were sensory deprivation, immersion in a pit latrine, mock execu- tions, overcrowding in special cells, deafening loudspeakers, keeping prisoners naked in front of relatives, and forcing a prisoner about to be executed to carry his own coffin or dig his own grave; (E) the United Nations commissioners also charged the Cuban regime with carrying out reprisals against Cuban citizens who offered testimony to the United Nations group, a clear violation of the Castro's government's promise not to harass those who complained about human rights; (F) at least 22 Cuban human rights activists who were arrested are currently serving prison sentences or being held without trial; (G) the Human Rights Commission approved a resolution on March 9, 1989, calling on the Cuban government to cooperate with the Secretary General of the United Nations in settling unresolved issues raised by the human rights study group; (H) since March 9, 1989, the United Nations has failed to take any substantive action to follow up on the March 9 resolution.

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