11J

News about the protests on July 11, 2021, in Cuba

What the life and work of Václav Havel convey to the intellectuals of Cuba

Prisoner from 11J moved to a more severe regime after being beaten

Andy García was detained for "walking and filming in the street," his sister claims

On the 11J Express, Andy García Lorenzo was once again detained in Santa Clara

What the struggle of the Poles teaches us today as Cubans

Wilber Aguilar claims that he was not allowed to see his imprisoned son after traveling 300 kilometers: "Everything was premeditated."

The importance of communications in the defense of Cuba's freedom

Amnesty International demands the immediate release of the Cuban political prisoner Roberto Pérez Fonseca

Lawyer Alain Espinosa accuses the Cuban regime of blocking cell signals to suppress without being recorded

The prisoner of 11J, Ángel Jesús Véliz, turns 32 on Monday: His sixth birthday in prison

Guillermo del Sol on the brink of death: He has completed 66 days on a hunger strike

11J prisoner José Ramón Solano Randiche ends hunger strike after sentence reduction

Fernando Michael Bárzaga, a prisoner from the 11J protests, has been released

"In Cuba, protests have not ceased since July 2021, and now demonstrations occur every day," notes an academic

"I survived those walls. Sayli is still behind them": the heartbreaking testimony of Sissi Abascal

Political prisoner from 11J denounces lack of medical attention: "I have no choice but to rest and wait."

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara responds to his critics: "I truly suffered in the dungeons of the dictatorship."

Masons call for a protest after alleging that the regime is attempting to take control of the Supreme Council

Granma rewrites the Maleconazo: When propaganda attempts to turn protest into a heroic legend

Activist Guillermo del Sol reaches his 46th day on hunger strike with severe dehydration

Luis Manuel Otero defends Chocolate MC: "His Bajanda became an anthem against the Cuban dictatorship."

Otero Alcántara: "There are prisoners that nobody knows exist and they are suffering."

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara: "It is everyone's responsibility for Cuba to be a better place."

The significance of 11J after five years

Cynicism in its purest form: the regime claims that Luis Manuel Otero left Cuba "without coercion."

Political prisoner Yosvany Rosell rejects exile as a means to leave prison: "Let them go."

Iliana Hernández, about the San Isidro strike: "My heart was like this... I thought I was going to have a breakdown."

Mother of political prisoners claims that Quivicán prison has no water and her sick son is in danger

Díaz-Canel, six months without fuel and over a thousand political prisoners

The lawyer argues that militarization in Cuba is not aimed at facing the U.S., but rather against the people

Cuban woman has been in pre-trial detention for 10 days after a video on social media criticizing the Cuban regime

Luis Manuel Otero, on the verge of escaping hell and reaching lands of freedom

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara would travel to the U.S. on Saturday after being granted parole

Blackouts in Cuba: Analyst warns that they also cut the electricity to carry out massacres without witnesses

Cuban regime worried about a social explosion: The image that exposed them on national television

"The Eternal Night of Cuba" wins the Grand Prize at the 2026 Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas

Cacerolazo in Guanabacoa, while regime agents promise "light for Saturday."

Residents of San Isidro protest after four days without electricity and five days without water

Almost two thousand repressive actions in the first half of 2026 in Cuba, five years after 11J

President of the FMC: "Cuban women know that the crisis weighs more heavily on our shoulders."

Five years after 11J, Oscar Casanella delivers a powerful message

Sociologist Cecilia Bobes analyzes the legacy of 11J: "The street stopped being merely a space managed by the State."

Gerardo Hernández mocks the exile protest in Miami: “ICE deported everyone who had a criminal record.”

"From that paradise island, only a land sunk in misery remains," claims Cuban writer Daína Chaviano

Exiled Cuban military personnel urge those on the island to remove the Castros from power

Lisbeth Fernández aims for Miss Florida USA after coming close to Miss Universe Cuba

The U.S. representative to the UN recalls the July 11th protests and demands freedom for more than 800 Cuban political prisoners

Message from political prisoner Virgilio Mantilla on the anniversary of 11J

Abel Prieto refers to the July 11 protests as a "farce" and sparks a wave of criticism on the fifth anniversary of the massive demonstrations in Cuba

Testimony of a protester from 11J: "I went out to ask for freedom and it marked me forever."

Chapel of Charity: "Our prayer for those who continue to suffer imprisonment, persecution, and exile."

Cubans in Miami protest in front of the shipping agency Cubamax on the fifth anniversary of 11J

Police patrol monitors the house of the father of a political prisoner from the 11J on the fifth anniversary of the protests

Cuba: July 11, Five Years Later

Involuntary Symbolism of the Cuban Book Institute: Poetry Collection "Migraciones" Presented on July 11th

Alina Bárbara López denounces on 11J that the Cuban regime is a "terrorist state against its own people."

Regime prevents family members from seeing Eddy Ceballos: He is transferred at night to an interrogation center

Justice 11J: "No cause can progress if it abandons those who rose up first."

Writer Pablo Socorro: Five years after 11J, the regime "continues to repress, but now with more ferocity and fear."

Surveillance of journalist Camila Acosta on this 11J: The regime besieges her at home as it does every anniversary