Penal Code in Cuba

Femicide cases in Cuba rise to nine following the confirmation of two more cases in 2025

Former superintendent of Puerto Padre sentenced to seven years in prison for embezzlement

A man was arrested after attempting to murder his ex-wife on a street in Santiago de Cuba

Violence against women in Cuba: Nurse murdered in Guiteras neighborhood of Havana

Cuban man arrested in Holguín with controlled medications for illegal sale

Exemplary Trials in Cuba: Regime Harshly Punishes Drug Trafficking

Díaz-Canel asserts that Cuban women were “liberated” with the revolution

Police dismantles illegal mining camp in Santa Clara and arrests two individuals

Cuban government labels the death of a cat in Havana as "abhorrent" and announces sanctions

Eight people arrested in Las Tunas for obtaining gold dust through illegal mining

A woman has been fined for beating a cat to death in Havana; animal rights activists are calling for penalties "commensurate with the seriousness of these acts."

Cuban authorities report the seizure of over one ton of drugs in 2024

News from Cuba today, February 1, 2025: the dollar and euro reach 340 CUP, one dead in an accident in Guantánamo, energy crisis continues with blackouts

Tragic event in Ciego de Ávila: Young man loses his life in a dispute over football

A Cuban man is arrested with 85 "el químico" cigarettes in Holguín

Feminist platforms confirm two more women killed in Cuba

Young mother is killed by her ex-partner in Santiago de Cuba

Four more femicides in Cuba have been confirmed: There are now 50 this year

Havana Prosecutor's Office reaffirms threatening stance: "We have rights, but without overstepping"

Writer Adriana Normand barred from leaving Cuba: "I am under public interest regulations."

Amnesty International launches campaign for human rights in Cuba

Two Cuban activists sentenced to prison for "propaganda against the constitutional order"

The Cuban regime promotes the anonymous denunciation of those who neither study nor work

Official press threatens Cubans who "disrespect public officials"

Five sentenced to life imprisonment in Cuba for femicides in 2023

The regime threatens to extradite and prosecute in absentia Cubans included in the "National Terrorist List."

Three and four-year prison sentences handed down to Cubans for million-dollar debt to the tax authorities in Santa Clara

Supreme Court Threat: The death penalty is there to defend the revolution

A Penal Code has been approved that maintains a five-year prison sentence for evading military service

Cuban faces four years in prison for "offenses" against the MININT on Facebook

New Military Penal Code: Up to five years in prison for evading Service

Hiring a lawyer for those accused of crimes against state security will cost more than 4,000 pesos

Cubans who protested during a blackout in Cienfuegos are being judged

Prisoners Defenders estimates the number of political prisoners in Cuba at 1,066

The U.S. demands the release of a young Cuban woman detained by State Security

Femicides in Cuba: A woman is murdered in Ciego de Ávila

State Security threatens ex-husband of political prisoner with revoking his custody of their children

They threaten Cuban activists with the Penal Code for online posts

Díaz-Canel on the new judicial year in Cuba: "It will be intense."

Cubalex warns about violations of citizens' rights in the new Penal Code

Cubans reflect on 2022 and look ahead to the new year (V)

Cubans reflect on 2022 and anticipate the new year (IV)

"I'm going to be murdered": Pilot who escaped from Cuba by small plane distressed over possible deportation

OCDH denounces that the new Cuban Penal Code pursues the civic exercise of any political right

News from Cuba: The most read news today, December 4, 2022

Amnesty International predicts a "terrifying outlook" with the new Cuban Penal Code

A new Penal Code comes into effect

Cuban activist suffers assault and ends up fined under Decree Law 370

Prosecution threatens Cubans filmed in videos during protests in Havana

The government will penalize those responsible for "vandalistic acts" and offenses against Díaz-Canel during protests over power outages

Cuban activist Diasniurka Salcedo sentenced to eight years in prison

Humberto López threatens the Cuban people with the new Penal Code

Electoral Transparency: Cuban government submits Family Code to referendum to project an image of democracy

Miguel Barnet absolves Fidel Castro for the repression in the UMAP

Host Yunior Morales responds to jail threats: “I am not afraid”

Yunior Morales, the broadcaster, is threatened with being accused of contempt

Luis Robles' family submits an appeal to the Cuban judiciary for a change in his prison regime

Family Code, another late Castroist charade

Cuba's Official Gazette publishes Penal Code that will come into effect in 90 days

Díaz-Canel calls on Cubans to vote yes for the Family Code