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 [...]
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 [...]
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. 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 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 [...]
Authorities at La Bellotex prison in Matanzas again prevented activist Sonia Álvarez, a member of the Ladies in White, from entering on March 4 when she attempted to visit her daughter, political prisoner Sayli Navarro, who was imprisoned following the protests of July 11, 2021. Félix [...]
The artist and activist Fernando Almenares Rivera, known as Nando OBDC, remains imprisoned in inhumane conditions at the Combinado del Este maximum security prison in Havana. According to information received by Cubalex, Nando is suffering from the flu, aggravated by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in the prison. Despite his [...]
Cubalex received information about the death of Osbety Girón Matos, 51, who died of tuberculosis in the Boniato prison, located in the province of Santiago de Cuba. The inmate was in detachment number 13, section 4, and died last week after being [...]
The health of political prisoner Sayli Navarro Álvarez is in serious danger. At La Bellotex prison in Matanzas, authorities are denying her the medical diet she needs, which is worsening her condition. Her father, opposition member Félix Navarro, told Cubalex that Sayli suffers from hypertension and is receiving treatment [...]
Cuban prisons continue to be scenes of neglect, mistreatment, and inhumane conditions that endanger the lives of those deprived of their liberty. Another death has been reported at the Boniato maximum-security prison, located in the province of Santiago de Cuba, reflecting the ongoing prison crisis. [...]
