Former political prisoner Ramón Jesús Velázquez Toranzo is being held in Santiago de Cuba, and his family does not know his whereabouts. Recently, Velázquez Toranzo and his wife, Bárbara María González Cruz, who reside in the United States, traveled to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre in [...]
Political prisoner Sulmira Martínez Pérez, known as “Salem Cuba,” has been detained for over a year without formal charges or a trial date. She was arrested after sharing Facebook posts expressing her interest in protesting against the regime in public spaces. In March 2023, she was [...]
Authorities at the Combinado del Este prison are denying Yasser Rivero Boni, an activist and political prisoner, permission to visit his father, who is hospitalized at the Calixto García Hospital due to severe heart failure. Yaquelín Boni, a member of the Ladies in White and the activist's mother, informed Cubalex [...]
Inmate Miguel Ángel Álvarez Sánchez, 57, has been the victim of a violent attack and death threats due to his activism for the right to dignified living conditions at Ariza prison, located in the province of Cienfuegos, where he is being held. According to a letter sent [...]
A complaint circulating on social media revealed that Infante Abreu, 36, was violently arrested on October 27, 2023. His wife recounts that on that day, the young man decided to protest against the government due to food shortages and precarious living conditions.
Gricelia Allen, mother of political prisoner Eider Frómeta Allen, recounts the incidents that occurred during her son's conjugal visit on January 22nd at the Boniato prison in Santiago de Cuba. That day, prison authorities harassed her son's wife, Marineisy Martínez Villalón, [...]
Mario Alberto Hernández Leyva, vice president of the Movement of Opponents for a New Republic (MONR), was arrested on January 23 and taken in a patrol car to the 6th unit of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) in the Marianao municipality of Havana. According to information provided to Cubalex, the opposition member was later transferred [...]
On November 3, 2023, an appeal was filed with the Supreme People's Court after the habeas corpus petition on behalf of Adrián Curuneaux Stevens, vice president of the Movement of Opponents for a New Republic (MONR), was rejected on November 1, 2023. The activist [...]
Captain Yaima Cano Castillo, head of the Granja 5 women's prison in Camagüey, threatened political prisoner Yanet Pérez Quevedo with withdrawing her minimum sentence for denouncing deficiencies in the handling of her case by her lawyer, the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights reported.
Moraima Rodríguez Batista was attacked in the street while on her way to the Kilo 5 1/2 prison in Pinar del Río, where her son, Alexander Díaz Rodríguez, is being held as a political prisoner for participating in the July 11, 2021 protests. In the early morning of the 16th [...]
