Sixth Sunday of repression against the Ladies in White to prevent them from attending mass

Damas de Blanco en Matanzas. Foto: Berta Soler/Facebook. Este domingo 6 de abril de 2025, se registró una nueva jornada represiva en varias provincias del país, dirigida a impedir que las activistas de las Damas de Blanco ejercieran su derecho a la libertad religiosa y asistieran a misa para pedir [...]

For the fourth time, family visit to Sayli Navarro's mother is blocked because she is wearing white.

Foto: Sayli Navarro/Facebook. Una vez más, las autoridades de la prisión de mujeres La Bellotex, en la provincia de Matanzas, impidieron que la activista Sonia Álvarez Campillo, integrante de las Damas de Blanco, pudiera visitar a su hija, la prisionera política Sayli Navarro Álvarez. En cuatro ocasiones consecutivas, a Sonia [...]

Sissi Abascal denied prison benefits due to “negative conduct” as punishment for her resistance in prison

Las autoridades de la prisión de mujeres La Bellotex, en la provincia de Matanzas, han notificado oficialmente a la prisionera política Sissi Abascal que no se le otorgarán beneficios penitenciarios durante los próximos seis meses, por considerarla una “presa negativa”. Según información recibida por Cubalex, el pasado 31 de marzo, [...]

Inmate dies in Boniato prison due to lack of medical attention

Cubalex recibió información sobre el fallecimiento del recluso Ramón Alayo Anglada, conocido como “Palmita”, natural de Palma Soriano y recluido en el destacamento No. 11 de la prisión de Boniato, en la provincia de Santiago de Cuba. Según lo reportado a nuestra organización, Ramón presentaba una masa visible en el [...]

Political prisoner Yonay Moreu Leal continues his hunger strike and is being punished with isolation.

Political prisoner Yonay Moreu Leal continues his hunger strike in Agüica prison, in Matanzas province, after staging a protest a week ago against the regime's abuses against political prisoners. Reprisals and punishment in prison: According to information received by Cubalex, as retaliation for [...]

Sonia Álvarez's visit to her daughter, political prisoner Sayli Navarro, has been denied for the third time. 

Photo: Taken from Radio Martí. Authorities at La Bellotex prison in Matanzas province denied Lady in White Sonia Álvarez the right to visit her daughter, political prisoner Sayli Navarro Álvarez, for the third time. Opposition leader Félix Navarro, Sayli's father, reported [...]

Political prisoner Nelson Caballero Díaz denounces his arbitrary detention and demands his immediate release 

Photo: Taken from Nelson Caballero Díaz's Facebook profile. Political prisoner Nelson Caballero Díaz has announced he will begin a hunger strike to demand his immediate release, after nearly five months of arbitrary detention and constant violations of his fundamental rights. An extreme protest against the silence [...]

Rolando Yusef Pérez Morera, a political prisoner in Cuba, is at risk due to extreme malnutrition. 

Political prisoner Rolando Yusef Pérez Morera. Photo: José Díaz Silva/Facebook. Cubalex has received worrying information about the serious deterioration of the health of political prisoner Rolando Yusef Pérez Morera, who remains imprisoned in Quivicán prison, in the province of Mayabeque, in inhumane conditions and without access to [...]

Political prisoner Ángel Castro Carrera faces reprisals for denouncing rapes in prison

Political prisoner Ángel Castro Carrera. Photo: José Díaz Silva/Facebook. Political prisoner Ángel Castro Carrera, delegate of the Movement of Opponents for a New Republic (MONR), faces threats and reprisals for denouncing human rights violations within the prison. His case reflects the systematic pattern of repression employed by the regime [...]

The Cuban regime ends the process of releasing political prisoners without justice or guarantees.

The Cuban regime announced on March 10 the conclusion of the early release process for 553 people convicted of various crimes. However, far from representing an act of justice, this measure is a maneuver to mask the repression without granting true freedom to those who benefited. Marisela Sosa [...]

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