Categoría: Political Prisoners
Black September in Cuba: 6 new political prisoners
Report by Cuban Prisoners Defenders, 1 October 2020: PRISONERS DEFENDERS UPDATES THE LIST OF CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS AS OCTOBER 1, 2020… This month we have…
July 2020: 5 new political prisoners and two more IACHR’s condemnations to Cuba
This July we have incorporated 5 new Convicts of Conscience to a total of 132. 43 new Convicts of Conscience have been added only in the last 11 months.
CUBA ESTABLISHES THE LEGISLATIVE STANDARDIZATION OF THE REPRESSION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND PRISONERS DEFENDERS DENOUNCES IT IN THE UNITED NATIONS
Prisoners Defenders, in consortium with the Independent Trade Union Association of Cuba (ASIC), San Isidro Movement, UNPACU, Instituto Patmos and Corriente Martiana, denounces in the United Nations the process of persecution of hundreds of cases for freedom of expression, in a new pattern of legislative normalization of the repression of freedom of expression. The regime has already carried out between 500 and 1,000 processes of threat and/or punishment of civilians, officials, self-employed, artists, journalists and civil society activists to curtail freedom of expression in Cuba in the field of the Internet, the only one that escaped in some small measure at its control. A sample of 33 cases have been reported.
United Nations calls for the immediate release of 7 more political prisoners from the list of Prisoners Defenders
They are Aymara Nieto Muñoz, Eliecer Bandera Barreras, Humberto Rico Quiala, José Antonio Pompa López, Melkis Faure Hechevarría, Mitzael Díaz Paseiro and Silverio Portal Contreras….
Repression intensifies in Cuba like never in years: 8 new convicts of conscience in jail
Leer en PDF (ESPAÑOL) / Read in PDF (ENGLISH) PRISONERS DEFENDERS UPDATES ITS LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AS OF MAY 4, 2020… From the 134…
SOS FOR ALL CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Serious and urgent communication from the Patriotic Union of Cuba: Santiago de Cuba, April 11, 2020. As we all know, in the already too long…
3 new political prisoners in March make 128 condemned among the opposition in Cuba
3 new political prisoners in March make 128 condemned among the opposition in Cuba. Yanier Joubert Cisneros (UNPACU), Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (artist) and Omar Portieles Camejo (UNPACU) joined PD’s list of political prisoners in March
127 convicted among the opposition in Cuba and the farce trial of Ferrer corner the “regime”
Cuban Prisoners Defenders’ report, March 2, 2020: PRISONERS DEFENDERS UPDATES ITS LIST OF POLITICAL PRISONERS… ESPAÑOL (PDF) / ENGLISH (PDF) From the 127, (see list)…
X-ray of an injustice: the trial of José Daniel Ferrer
Prisoners Defenders can highlight that the trial has been a farce of the State Security where all actors, by action or omission, have been part of the unfair and political imprisonment
United Nations condemns the imprisonment of political prisoners in Cuba and targets the Criminal Code and the lack of independence of lawyers
The first three cases reviewed are that of Josiel Guía Piloto, Iván Amaro Hidalgo and Marbel Mendoza Reyes, in a new resolution of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which comes to endorse and extend the resolution of the case of Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces.
