On the morning of October 23, 2017, César Iván Mendoza Regal and Roberto Jiménez, both members of unregistered Cuban civil society organizations, were scheduled to board a plane bound for the United States, but they never did. After 14 days incommunicado, Roberto Jiménez was released. [...]
Peaceful assembly and demonstration are essential for public participation. On the afternoon of July 21, 2018, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Iris Ruiz, Amaury Pacheco, Soandry del Río, Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, and José Ernesto Alonso gathered in front of the Capitol Building in Havana to protest against the [...]
Cubalex demands that the Cuban government cease its acts of harassment against human rights defenders who cooperate from the island with United Nations human rights protection mechanisms. Immigration and Foreign Affairs authorities prevented Acelia Carvajal, 63, from traveling to Geneva [...]
Cubalex condemns the acts of harassment and reprisals carried out by Cuban authorities against human rights defender Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez Valdés, coordinator of the Martí Current movement. At approximately 9:20 a.m. today, State Security authorities raided his home and conducted a thorough search [...]
Maria Cristina Labrada Varona was arrested on December 21, 2017, at approximately 11:00 a.m. in the Diez de Octubre municipality of the capital. Her current whereabouts are unknown. She was alone, and there are no witnesses to her arrest. According to Berta Soler, Labrada Varona managed to call her [...]
Urgent alert: State Security and police authorities are currently outside the home of Luis Trápaga and Lía Villares to prevent artists and activists from entering the theater performance of "Sicosis," directed by playwright Adonis Milán. The event is part of [...]
We mourn your passing; but we find comfort in knowing you live on in every Cuban who fights for freedom and democracy in Cuba. Cubalex deeply regrets the loss of Ada María López Canino, a Lady in White and tireless fighter for human rights in [...]
Havana, Cuba, November 20, 2016 – Cubalex wishes to express its gratitude for the support and solidarity shown by those who have requested and received free legal counsel from our organization and who were recently questioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office for four weeks. We are withholding their identities to prevent them from being harassed.
[...]“Justice cannot be delayed; whoever postpones its fulfillment turns it against themselves”: José Martí. Havana, November 15, 2016. The Cubalex Legal Information Center is launching a campaign in support of Julio Alfredo Ferrer Tamayo, a lawyer by profession and a human rights defender by conviction. [...]
Havana, Cuba, November 4, 2016 – Our team is currently under administrative investigation by the Attorney General's Office, based on criminal charges and the use of criminal investigation procedures, violating due process guarantees, which place us in a completely unfair position.
Havana, Cuba, November 3, 2016: The Attorney General's Office initiated an administrative investigation on September 23 at the headquarters of Cubalex, with potential criminal consequences for its members.
[...]Faced with international pressure, we fear the government will respond to this arbitrariness with more arbitrariness. Havana, Cuba, October 19, 2016. We denounce the acts of harassment and reprisals undertaken by national authorities against the people served by Cubalex, to force them to testify against us and aggravate [...]
