Leticia Cué Nápoles, a former political prisoner and mother of activist Ienelis Delgado Cué, was arbitrarily detained in the city of Camagüey. Her case is part of a documented pattern of harassment against human rights defenders and their families. According to her husband, former political prisoner Edgardo [...]
Photo: Radio Televisión Martí. Félix Navarro Rodríguez, a Cuban political prisoner and opposition leader, was summoned on April 22, 2025, before the Municipal Court of Perico, Matanzas, after having quit his job due to repeated arbitrary arrests every Sunday for attempting to attend Mass. The court imposed new conditions on him [...]
Photo: Cuban artist Fernando Almenares 'Nando OBDC'/Facebook. The initial accusation against Cuban artist Fernando Almenares, known as Nando OBDC, is completely without evidence. Despite this, State Security insists on keeping him imprisoned, now initiating a new criminal investigation against him. The Observatory of Cultural Rights [...]
Photo: Edilberto Arzuaga Alcalá/Facebook. Faced with imposed silence and systematic repression, the hunger strike is, for many political prisoners, the only way to raise their voices and denounce the abuses they suffer. Political prisoner Edilberto Arzuaga Alcalá has been on hunger strike for more than three weeks, imprisoned [...]
From Cubalex, we are raising the alarm about the serious situation of violence and repression currently taking place in the Melena del Sur prison, located in the province of Mayabeque, where several political prisoners from the July 11, 2021 (11J) uprising are being held. According to reports received, the prisoners [...]
Ladies in White in Matanzas. Photo: Berta Soler/Facebook. This Sunday, April 6, 2025, a new day of repression was recorded in several provinces of the country, aimed at preventing the Ladies in White activists from exercising their right to religious freedom and attending Mass to pray for [...]
Photo: Sayli Navarro/Facebook. Once again, authorities at the La Bellotex women's prison in Matanzas province prevented activist Sonia Álvarez Campillo, a member of the Ladies in White, from visiting her daughter, political prisoner Sayli Navarro Álvarez. On four consecutive occasions, Sonia [...]
Authorities at the La Bellotex women's prison in Matanzas province have officially notified political prisoner Sissi Abascal that she will not be granted any prison benefits for the next six months, considering her a "negative prisoner." According to information received by Cubalex on March 31, [...]
Cubalex received information about the death of inmate Ramón Alayo Anglada, known as “Palmita,” a native of Palma Soriano and incarcerated in Detachment No. 11 of the Boniato prison in the province of Santiago de Cuba. According to reports received by our organization, Ramón had a visible mass in his [...]
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 [...]
