Cubalex has received information about a brutal attack against political prisoner Yurisnel Rodríguez Torres at the Boniato maximum security prison, located in the province of Santiago de Cuba, allegedly ordered by prison authorities. The attack was carried out under the orders of prison authorities. According to the information [...]
Photo: Taken from Martí Noticias. Cubalex has received information about the deaths of two inmates at the Boniato prison, located in the province of Santiago de Cuba, who were victims of extreme malnutrition and neglect by prison authorities. Deaths in inhumane conditions. The inmates Giovanis Ortega [...]
Cubalex reports the arbitrary suspension of phone calls to inmates at Boniato Prison in Santiago de Cuba. At Boniato Prison, located in the province of Santiago de Cuba, an entire cell block was arbitrarily punished with a 15-day suspension of phone calls. According to information received by [...]
Yankiel Justiz Despaigne, a 36-year-old inmate, died on January 30 from tuberculosis at the Melena del Sur prison, located in the province of Mayabeque. According to information received by Cubalex, Justiz Despaigne died in his cell without receiving timely medical attention, despite the fact that tuberculosis is [...]
Inmate Oscar Leiva Caballero died on February 1st at the Boniato prison, located in the province of Santiago de Cuba, from a heart attack, according to information confirmed by Cubalex. On January 31st, Leiva Caballero suffered a first heart attack and was transferred to the hospital. However, [...]
Political prisoner Onaikel Infante Abreu was brutally beaten on Thursday, January 30, at the Combinado del Este prison in Havana. His wife, Sujay Acosta Toscano, told Cubalex that four guards attacked him with batons for no reason, claiming only that Onaikel “was bothering them [...]
Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right, and its deliberate denial in the prison context represents a serious human rights violation, which may constitute institutional abuse or even torture. The case of political prisoner Andrés Lugo Pérez demonstrates the systematic neglect of medical care in prisons, exposing [...]
On January 24, Jesús David Rodríguez Prevot, a political prisoner linked to the July 11, 2021 (11J) protests, was arbitrarily detained as he left his home in Guantánamo City. According to information confirmed by Cubalex, Rodríguez Prevot was intercepted by police in the middle of [...]
The young man, identified as Lázaro Noel Urgellés Fajardo, who was imprisoned following the protests of July 11, 2021, was arrested on January 12 and initially taken to the Aguilera police station. Subsequently, on January 18, authorities transferred him to the El Vivac detention center in Havana, [...]
On January 18, we received information about political prisoner Leoncio Rodríguez Ponce, who is in critical condition in the Holguín provincial prison, without receiving adequate medical attention. According to information confirmed by Cubalex, Rodríguez Ponce was unconscious for several days due to high blood pressure [...]
