Together with seven other organisations Civil Rights Defenders has written an open letter to the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, urging him to ens...
On Sunday, 26 March, the Cuban National Assembly will be appointed. The people can vote – but have nothing to choose between. The Cuban Communist Party will stay in power. When Cubans are ...
In Cuba, poets, painters, and musicians get imprisoned for using their freedom of expression. For using their voices. In a new campaign, Imprisoned voices (Voces Presas), we highlight three of these a...
In mid-March the Cuban government sentenced 127 people to a total of 1916 years in prison for demonstrating and expressing their views. Almost a year after the 11 & 12 July (11J) protests in Cuba ...
Just before Christmas a municipal court sentenced 17 protesters from the marginalized neighbourhood La Güinera to between 15 and 25 years in prison. “The government targets people in La Güinera becaus...
The streets in Cuba were empty as the government managed to suppress the pro-democratic protests planned for 15 November. During the weekend, ahead of the protests, police and security officials detai...
Today, human rights defender María Elena Mir Marrero has been attacked in Cuba and activated her alarm via the alarm system Natalia Project. María Elena Mir Marrero is a prominent human rights activis...
On 17 August, the Cuban government adopted a legal framework for telecommunications, information and communication technologies, officially to protect Cuba against the country’s hi...
Since the massive wave of protests in Cuba on 11 July, activists and organisations keep reporting human rights violations connected to the protests. Some protesters are still detained, others have bee...
Since 11 July, the biggest antigovernmental protests in decades have rippled through Cuba. The protests have been met with excessive violence from authorities, and the internet has been shut down in s...
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