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UNPACU publishes list of 142 activists arrested during Pope’s visit to Cuba

The following report was issued by the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), a Santiago de Cuba based pro-democracy organization that has activists throughout the island: List of the human rights defenders that the Pope “did not know were repressed” during his...

ALERT: “El Sexto” along with other Havana Prisoners Promised Freedom Today…Denied Thus Far

(Drawing by Danilo Maldonado “El Sexto” from Valle Grande Prison, Havana, Cuba)According to Danilo Maldonado Machado aka El Sexto’s family and fellow activists, Cuban State Security had promised Danilo would be released from Valle Grande prison in...

First Hand Repression Account by a Cuban Human Rights Activist

Sunday August 16, 2015Movimiento Opositores por una Nueva Republica.Movimiento Democracia,Todos Somos Resistencia Orlando Zapata Tamayo.This Sunday 16 August repression continued unabated. Beatings, arrests, insults and acts of repudiation against the Ladies in White...

“MARCH MADNESS” IN HAVANA: ONGOING REPRESSION MET WITH INCREASED SOLIDARITY BY CUBA’S HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Miami, FL – For the sixteenth consecutive Sunday, the Ladies in White movement reported excessive repression and politically motivated arrests as a response to their weekly, nonviolent marches in Havana.According to Ladies in White Leader, Berta Soler, “after the...

Release: List of Political Prisoners Still Serving Unjust Time in Cuban Jails Whose Families Receive Monthly Humanitarian Support from CANF & FHRC

UPDATED (February 19th, 2016): See updated list below.UPDATED (January 6th, 2016): #54 Vladimir Morera Bacallao Morera is no longer on hunger Strike. #7 Yuselín Ferrera sentence completed. #48 Eliover Quevedo sentence completed. #53 Rafael Felipe sentence completed....