Photo: Cubalex Archive. Óscar Luis Ortiz Arrovsmeth, a protester in the July 11, 2021 demonstrations, is serving a ten-year prison sentence at the Combinado del Este prison in Havana. Since his arrest, his health has severely deteriorated due to a lack of medical attention and [...]
Photo: Cubalex Archive. Cubalex received information about the death of inmate Serguey Marrero Faure, which occurred on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the Guantánamo Provincial Prison. According to the information sent to Cubalex, Marrero went to the prison's medical post after feeling unwell and was diagnosed with a blood clot [...]
Opposition leader and political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer García, head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), was released on October 13, 2025, and traveled with some of his family to the United States, after accepting the forced exile imposed by the Cuban regime as a condition for his release.
Photo: Cubalex Archive. In recent days, a case in Santiago de Cuba has reignited a debate that concerns many people: why do law enforcement officers continue to use terms like “contempt” or “social dangerousness,” even though the latter has been eliminated from the Penal Code?
Antonio Rassi, an 18-year-old who died while serving his mandatory military service in Cuba. Photo: Mercedes Roque/Facebook. Mercedes Roque, mother of Antonio Rassi Roque—who died on August 18 while serving his mandatory military service at the El Calvario military unit in Havana—has denounced irregularities and a lack of [...]
Photo: NanDoo ObDc/Facebook. The Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Cuba filed a request for a six-year prison sentence against artist and activist Fernando Almenares Rivera, known on social media as Nando OBDC, on charges of propaganda against the constitutional order, according to case file EFP 19-2025 dated [...]
Michael Hernández, a former political prisoner, was summoned to appear at a National Revolutionary Police (PNR) station in Pinar del Río. Although he resides in the town of Briones Montoto, the trip represented an unnecessary expense amidst the transportation crisis, worsening his already precarious financial situation. [...]
Photo: Cubalex Archive. Cubalex received information revealing how prison authorities at Boniato prison in Santiago de Cuba are resorting to threats and coercion against inmates to cover up state responsibility for the death of Leudis Ramos Mejías, who died in custody on September 30, 2024. [...]
Photo: Cubalex Archive. Since mobile internet arrived in Cuba in 2018, millions of citizens have found in it a tool to express ideas and thoughts that had been denied them in physical spaces since 1959. But this same space soon became a minefield. The [...]
Cubalex received information about the death in custody of Leudis Ramos Mejías, 31, a native of Mayarí (Holguín). He was serving a seven-year sentence for a common crime at the Boniato prison in Santiago de Cuba, in cell 29 of detachment 13. According to available information, he had been incarcerated for several years.
