In the context of the fourth anniversary of the mass protests of July 11, 2021 (11J), national and international organizations are warning of a new escalation of repression by the Cuban state. Surveillance, arbitrary arrests, harassment, and threats have intensified against activists, independent journalists, and other individuals.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) elected Cuban activist Rosa María Payá as one of its newest members on June 27, during the 55th session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS). Photo: Rosa María Payá Acevedo/Facebook. We celebrate the recent [...]
From Cubalex, we express our firm support for the university students in Cuba who, in exercising their fundamental rights, have called an academic strike as a legitimate form of peaceful protest against the recent price increase imposed by ETECSA. This measure deepens the social and economic barriers that [...]
On May 29, 2025, Cubalex submitted a formal response to the Committee against Enforced Disappearances (CED), within the framework of Urgent Action Procedures AU Nos. 2033 to 2038/2025, activated following the arbitrary detention and disappearance of six human rights defenders in Cuba. [...]
The United Nations Committee against Enforced Disappearances recently activated two urgent actions in response to the complaint filed by Cubalex regarding the arbitrary detentions of six human rights defenders in Cuba on April 29, 2025. These actions were registered under the following [...]
Photo: Screenshot from the program “A fondo” on América TV. In statements given to journalist Juan Manuel Cao, Laritza Diversent emphasized that the Cuban state uses the revocation of parole as a form of political punishment. The executive director of Cubalex, Laritza Diversent, was interviewed by the renowned [...]
Cuban opposition leaders Félix Navarro and José Daniel Ferrer have been detained again incommunicado and without legal guarantees, after having been released in January under a conditional release regime imposed without their consent. Cubalex warns that these events are part of a repressive pattern that [...]
We denounce the arbitrary revocation of the parole of political prisoners José Daniel Ferrer García and Félix Navarro Rodríguez, who were released in January 2025 as part of negotiations between the Cuban regime and the Vatican. The Supreme People's Court announced the revocation of their parole on April 29, alleging [...]
Photo: Screenshot from the IACHR public hearing/Cubalex. On March 4, Cubalex participated in the regional hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), within the framework of its 192nd Session, on the “Situation of Arbitrary Deprivation of Liberty for Political Reasons,” along with [...]
Photo: Screenshot from the public hearing/Cubalex. During the 192nd Session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), on March 3, 2025, Cubalex presented the critical situation of people deprived of their liberty with psychosocial disabilities in Cuba. Once again, the Cuban State [...]
January 21, 2025 Cubalex expresses its deep concern regarding the possible suspension of the release process announced by the Cuban government on January 14, in which the gradual release of 553 sanctioned individuals was promised, generating expectations among the families of those deprived of their liberty.
January 15, 2024 Regarding the recent declaration by the Cuban government, entitled “In the spirit of the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025, the Cuban State releases people serving sentences,” in which the release of 553 sanctioned individuals is announced, Cubalex expresses concern about the omissions and [...]
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 [...]
