To: Mr. Edison Lanza, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, IACHR To: David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression To: Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Havana, Cuba. July 3 [...]
At least 132 people, including artists, journalists, and activists, were detained, subjected to house arrest, and had their internet service cut off when they planned to participate in and cover protests against police violence. On June 30, the Cuban State Security Department [...]
By: Claudia Padrón Cueto At the end of last March, journalist Camila Acosta underwent her fifth interrogation by Cuban state security agents in just four months: quite a record for a young reporter of only 27 years old and a university graduate of four years. The person in charge of this [...]
The undersigned organizations and media outlets support the petition submitted on June 8 in Cuba to the National Assembly, the Council of State, the Supreme Court, the Attorney General's Office, and the President of the Republic to declare Decree Law 370 of 2019 unconstitutional. The 64 [...]
On the morning of June 8, Cuban activists presented the National Assembly with a document containing more than 3,600 signatures, requesting that Parliament repeal Decree 370/2019 (the "Gag Law"), which controls internet access and use on the island, on the grounds of its unconstitutionality. Cubalex shares a [...]
The decree addresses the computerization of Cuban society, conceived as an effective means for consolidating the achievements of Socialism, an instrument for the political defense of the Revolution, and for increasing technological sovereignty for the benefit of national security and defense; for cybersecurity against [...]
