With two days remaining before the end of his unjust five-year prison sentence for the crimes of contempt and insulting national symbols, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was taken from Guanajay Prison yesterday afternoon, July 7, amidst a [...]
Cubalex expresses concern about the situation of Ricardo Román Suárez Marrero, an inmate at Kilo 8 prison in Camagüey, sentenced to 18 years in prison for politically motivated crimes, including espionage, disclosure of secrets, and contempt of court. The case of Ricardo Suárez Marrero is complex. He was [...]
The context: the cost of peaceful dissent. Since June 22, 2026, Cuban human rights defender Miguel Ángel López Herrera has been officially on a hunger strike at his home to demand the immediate release of the more than 1,000 political prisoners held [...]
Cubalex is raising concerns about the situation of Karel de Miranda Rubio, Alain Forbes Lamorú, Yoan Torres Martínez, and Leandro Cerezo Sirut, four Cubans convicted in 2007 in a case handled by the military courts, related to events that occurred when they were young recruits in the Mandatory Military Service. According to testimony received by Cubalex, [...]
The case of the young political prisoner, Lázaro Noel Urgellés Fajardo, who was punished for participating in the July 2011 demonstrations while a minor, exposes how Cuban authorities use the judicial system not to administer justice, but as a mechanism for arbitrary and discretionary punishment. His detention, [...]
