On Saturday 16 April, the Cuban human rights defender María Elena Mir Marrero sent out a distress signal through the Natalia Project alarm. The emergency signal indicated that she felt threatened, vis...
In recent weeks, Cuban authorities have used aggressive tactics to crack down on activists, artists and critical voices. Civil Rights Defenders and six other organisations now call on the internationa...
Cuban authorities have launched yet another attack against Movimiento San Isidro, one of the most important cultural organisations in the Cuban democracy movement. Their member Denis Solís González wa...
70 out of 70 surveyed human rights defenders in Cuba say that the human rights situation has deteriorated since the Political Dialogue and Cooperation agreement between the EU and Cuba was signed in 2...
In response to Cuba’s election to a fifth term on the Human Rights Council, 85 Cuban and international human rights and freedom-of-expression organisations, in conjunction with independent media outle...
In response to the uninterrupted acts of intimidation and violence committed in the last two months by Cuban authorities against members of the dissident organisation Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU)...
The Cuban journalist Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces was released from prison on Friday 4 September after having served a one-year sentence for “resistance” and “disobedience”. He was sentenced becaus...
In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders and several human rights organisations and media outlets urge the Cuban government to declare Decree-Law 370 unconstitutional. The undersigned organisation...
Civil Rights Defenders joins almost fifty organisations in a joint statement on the increased persecution of journalists and civil society actors in Cuba. This persecution has increased since the begi...
During the last couple of months, the Cuban government has sent more than one thousand medical professionals to approximately 20 countries around the world, in order to participate in the fight agains...
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