La activista Kirenia Yalit Núñez presentó un recurso de Habeas Corpus en favor del rapero Maykel Castillo, quien se encuentra en reclusión domiciliaria y no se le permite salir de su vivienda, ni recibir visitas. Entre las 8:00 y las 8:30 de la noche del 27 de noviembre de 2020, [...]
We are alerting the public to information received from Cuba suggesting that state institutions, especially the Ministry of the Interior, are mobilizing armed personnel and rapid response brigades. The objective is to promote national hatred and incite hostility and physical, verbal, and psychological violence against [...]
The undersigned international and Cuban civil society organizations, independent Cuban media outlets, and activists and citizens condemn the harassment, police violence, human rights violations, and repressive acts perpetrated by Cuban authorities against artists, journalists, and independent civil society actors, [...]
Mexico City, November 15, 2020 – A large group of journalists and activists were victims of arbitrary arrests by members of the National Revolutionary Police, the State Security Department, and Military Counterintelligence from Thursday, November 12, until today, November 15, due to [...]
Roilan Álvarez Rensoler, an activist with UNPACU, was arrested on October 23, 2020, with six bottles of oil at a bus stop, waiting for a ride home. The police detained him, telling him he was being taken to the station on charges of hoarding. They took him to the [...]
By: Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo, Esq. It seems like a legal fatalism, an incurable affliction, a curse, that the authorities in Cuba conveniently disregard the law. That adherence to the law, so often spoken of by the country's top officials, is consciously and consistently disrespected by those who should [...]
By: Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo I have repeatedly pointed out that the absence of a Constitutional Court or Court of Constitutional Guarantees is a disastrous omission in the Cuban legal system. Using their “usual foresight,” the drafters of the proposed Constitution dismissed this body, which is so essential [...]
In response to Cuba's election to its fifth term on the Human Rights Council, 85 Cuban and international human rights and freedom of expression organizations, along with independent media outlets, issued the following statement: We are deeply concerned about the decision to grant Cuba a [...]
Since yesterday, the Cuban government, using its entire repressive apparatus, has begun an escalation of acts of violence and harassment against various activists on the island. Through the use of force and the few resources objectively at the government's disposal, they have organized [...]
Surveillance and arbitrary arrests of activists this Saturday, October 10, have been denounced by several independent journalists, artists, and opposition members. At 9:30 a.m., Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Coordinator of the San Isidro Movement (MSI), had no internet connection. This is a strategy used by State Security [...]
