While more than 700 of Cuba’s J-11 prisoners languish in jail, thousands of young Cubans are fleeing the island in record numbers. Over the past nine months, the U.S. Coast Guard says its crews ...

According to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, the number of political prisoners detained in Cuba has risen from 2,074 in 2010 to 6,424 in 2013.

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 17, 2025 / 15:35 pm The Cuban government’s announcement of the release of 553 prisoners has been described by an analyst and the opposition as “a swap” by the regime to ...

The embassy there is really busy advocating for dissidents, for human rights defenders, in private and public, talking with our colleagues and our friends on the island and off the island to have ...

Fidel Castro said Cuba held 15,000 political prisoners in 1964, but officials in recent years say none of their prisoners are held for political reasons -- all for common crimes or for being paid ...

Nora Gámez Torres is the Cuba/U.S.-Latin American policy reporter for el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald. She studied journalism and media and communications in Havana and London.

News Artists Demand Release of Dissident Artist Detained in Cuba Over 140 artists and intellectuals including Tania Bruguera and Katherine Bisquet have voiced their support for Hamlet Lavastida.

Havana, Cuba, Aug 7, 2006 / 22:00 pm The “Women in White,” an association of wives and family members of political prisoners in Cuba, organized a public march last Sunday calling on the ...

“All we did was demand the right to choose our political future and to speak our minds.” While more than 700 of Cuba’s J-11 prisoners languish in jail, thousands of young Cubans are fleeing ...

“On behalf of the young Cubans locked up in the island’s horrible prisons, I appeal to people of conscience around the world to support our struggle to liberate ourselves and our country,” Otero ...