Human Rights in Cuba

Cuban woman reports terrible conditions at Mayabeque hospital: she took her father home to die rather than endure them

The U.S. listens to a former member of a Cuban medical mission and calls for an end to the agreements

Human Rights in Cuba Today

Under what logic does a dictatorship hold power for more than 66 years in a country?

Sancti Spíritus will open its first emergency shelter for minors in vulnerable situations

Goodbye to Emilio Martínez Venegas, hero of the Cuban political prison system

Díaz-Canel speaks of "rights" in Cuba "for everyone"

Henry Constantin has been moved to the Cerámica prison in Camagüey without prior notification to his family

Rosa María Payá presents proposals to address the social collapse in Cuba and prepare for "the day after."

Bruno Rodríguez invokes a Declaration at the UN that also accuses the Cuban State

Alina Bárbara López reacts to the preventive detention imposed on Henry Constantin: "State of terror or terror of the State?"

Switzerland and Cuba: yesterday and today

Former GAESA employee reveals how Military Counterintelligence monitored employees and tourists in Cuban hotels

Neighbors of Estrada Palma in Santa Clara take to the streets and report blockades with police presence

Cuban regime imposes preventive detention on journalist Henry Constantin

Report identifies 12 patterns of repression against youths in Cuba

Cuba remains at the bottom: Freedom House once again points to the country as having the least freedom in Latin America

Political prisoner José Antonio Pompa confined in the maximum security area of Agüica prison: "He should not be there."

A study ranks Cuba among the countries with the lowest democratic performance in Latin America

UNEAC propaganda in Switzerland: defending the "commitment to human rights" that "prevails in Cuba"

Jurist and academic on the Cuban rulers: "They distance themselves from the people, and the people distance themselves from them."

"Thank you for speaking for those of us who cannot": Cubans rally around Angie after confronting French communist leader

In post-1959 Cuba, "space and time... have been under absolute police control," asserts the essayist

Bruno Rodríguez affirms in New York that Cuba seeks greater integration of its emigrants

Alina Bárbara López Hernández after five hours of detention: "When a regime does not respect its own strict laws, it is in its final throes."

Cuban woman who confronted French communist leader on television: "As long as I have a voice, I will continue to raise it for my people"

Félix Navarro's wife thanks the European Parliament: "Thank you for not turning a blind eye."

State Security threatens Cuban activists if they go to the U.S. Embassy.

European Parliament demands freedom for Félix and Saylí Navarro and to suspend agreement with Cuba

Cuban pastor released after three months in detention for shouting "Down with the dictatorship"

The Cuban regime celebrates its prisons as a "just and humane work" while political prisoners increase

Ulises Toirac: "Freedom begins in the mind."

Cubalex reports more than 10 human rights violations per day in Cuba

The desperate testimony of the wife of a Cuban political prisoner

A prisoner from the 11J protests has been experiencing severe pain for over 12 days without a diagnosis or medical follow-up

Ariel Ruiz Urquiola questions Harvard's plan for Cuba: "A negotiation does not replace a transformation of power."

"The vulnerable population in Cuba is no longer just a segment... it is the majority of the people," warns an academic

Aniette González leaves Cuba, having been imprisoned for posing with the national flag

Harvard experts envision the Cuba of the future: Democracy, private property, and a market economy

President of the Communist Youth of Chile denies that Cuba is a dictatorship: "The great sin is not having economic prosperity."

Harvard Group suggests that the current Cuban authorities facilitate a democratic transition

August leaves alarming figures in Cuba: a record number of homicides, five deaths in custody, and hundreds of repressive incidents

Harvard Group proposes democratic transition in Cuba, amnesty for political prisoners, and Constituent Assembly

From Protest to Transition: What Carolina Barrero's New Platform Means for Cuba's Political Future

The discrediting of the Human Rights Council and other UN institutions

Freedom House appoints Cuban Carolina Barrero as ambassador for its new global initiative for freedom

Cuban jurist: children in hunger, elderly without dreams, "how could it be in our name, you scoundrels?"

"Open your eyes": Influencer warns Mexicans not to repeat the same mistakes as Cubans

Bishop of Palm Beach delivers a powerful message about Cuba: "No people was created by God to live on their knees."

100 days imprisoned with no trial date: Eduardo Ceballos' mother demands justice

Cuban mother denounces the unauthorized use of her son's photo in regime propaganda against the embargo

Freedom House welcomes Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and reiterates its call for the release of over 1,300 political prisoners in Cuba

Cuba is dying, and the regime holds the key

Seven and eight years in prison sentenced to political prisoners in Las Tunas

Repression on the Patroness Day of Cuba: Damas de Blanco are monitored and Berta Soler is prevented from leaving

We must translate the protests "into a strategy of struggle," says Cuban historian

"It has even stolen our ability to react," "divided we will not get out of this," says an activist

The veteran independent journalist Reinaldo Emilio Cosano Alén has passed away

Father Alberto Reyes to the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre: “In the midst of so much repression, help us to have the courage to tell the truth.”

The regime harasses a UH student, daughter of independent journalist Yunia Figueredo