The human rights organization Cubalex filed Urgent Action requests with the United Nations Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding six survivors* of the incident that occurred on February 25, 2026, when a boat registered in the state of Florida was intercepted by Cuban troops [...]
The situation of Yosvany Rosell García Caso demands immediate action from the Cuban state and the international community. Cubalex reports on the critical health condition of Yosvany Rosell García Caso, a political prisoner from the July 11th massacre, who on December 1st completed forty days on hunger strike and is currently [...]
Cubalex expresses deep concern about the serious humanitarian situation facing eastern Cuba after Hurricane Melissa. The intense rains caused flooding, landslides, and severe damage, leaving a large number of people without communication, electricity, telephone service, and access to food. [...]
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.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for the immediate release of Yandier García Labrada, a Cuban farmer and dissident sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt,” “assaulting authority,” and “spreading epidemics.” In its Opinion No. 68/2023, issued during the 98th session of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Group called for the immediate release of Yandier García Labrada, a Cuban farmer and dissident sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt,” “assaulting authority,” and “spreading epidemics.”
The Cuban State accepted 292 of the 361 recommendations received during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review. They announced they would take note of 41 and rejected 28, related to the rights to freedom of expression and association. Washington, D.C., March 26, 2024 – After the [...]
During the fourth cycle of the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held on November 15, 2023, Cuba underwent further scrutiny under this mechanism, which revealed significant challenges for the State in fulfilling its international human rights obligations. Cuba received [...]
Given the alarming increase in gender-based violence in Cuba, on this International Women's Day, we call for intensified demands and actions to protect women on the island. Until early March, the Alas Tensas Gender Observatory (OGAT) and [...]
At a thematic hearing on Cuba before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, organizations denounced the intensification of state repression and human rights violations, and demanded urgent action to support independent civil society in Cuba. A coalition of 13 international and civil society organizations [...]
Laritza Diversent, a human rights lawyer and director of Cubalex, highlighted at the thematic hearing “Cuba: Right to Freedom of Association” before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the complex legal landscape that deepens restrictions on fundamental freedoms and obstructs any form of independent association in [...]
Julio Ferrer Tamayo, a lawyer with Cubalex, presented to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the complex situation faced by independent civil society organizations in Cuba due to ongoing harassment by the Cuban state. He emphasized that the systematic implementation of these methods constitutes a pattern aimed at [...]
On the occasion of Human Rights Day and the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we express our deep concern that human rights defenders, journalists, and artists continue to be arbitrarily detained, harassed, and intimidated in Cuba. Despite [...]
