Ten deaths occurred in prisons—two of them after inmates were released in critical condition—and two others during military service. Three of the cases show signs of extrajudicial execution. [...]
Navarro is currently experiencing stomach problems and difficulty tolerating food. According to the information received, meals cause him discomfort, and he does not yet know the cause of these symptoms nor does he have a definitive medical diagnosis to determine the origin of his condition. [...]
Political prisoner Yoan Arévalo is in extremely poor health at the Jóvenes del Cotorro prison—known as Ivanov—in Havana, according to a complaint filed by his mother on social media. [...]
So far in September, Cubalex has received more than a dozen complaints related to the interruption of telephone communications in 15 Cuban prisons, a situation that has left numerous families without regular contact with their incarcerated loved ones. [...]
Independent journalist Henry Constantin, director of the Cuban news outlet La Hora, has been detained for a week without effective legal guarantees and under a supposed provisional detention order that, to date, his defense has been unable to review with documentation. [...]
Between January 23 and September 18, 2026, Cubalex documented at least 86 incidents of repression directly related to the U.S. Embassy in Havana or to Mike Hammer, the chargé d'affaires at the diplomatic mission. [...]
Political prisoner and prisoner of conscience Ángel Serrano Hernández, sentenced to 14 years in prison for participating in the anti-government protests of July 11 and 12, 2021, in La Güinera, Havana, was brutally beaten inside the prison and subsequently transferred to another facility [...]
Jorge Bello Domínguez, a political prisoner from the July 11 attacks, continues to be denied the specialized medical care he needs at the Guanajay maximum-security prison in Artemisa, where he has been held since March 2025. [...]
Cubalex warns of the arbitrary continued imprisonment of the political prisoner from the 11J Lázaro Noel Urgellés Fajardo massacre, whose sentence was due to expire on September 6, and denounces the refusal of Cuban authorities to hand over the legal documents explaining the alleged change in his release date. [...]
The Cuban regime continues to use official summonses as a mechanism of intimidation and control against independent civil society activists and citizens who do not necessarily belong to an opposition organization or movement. Monitoring by Cubalex recorded 219 arbitrary summonses in Cuba up to August 2026, directed at both [...]
