Amid reports of food scarcity, the authorities continued to repress all forms of dissent, including by imprisoning independent artists, journalists and members of the political opposition.

We wrote to the Cuban government demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Maykel Castillo, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and José Daniel Ferrer. While this is happening, we ask for the protection of their physical and mental integrity; to ensure their health and well-being; to guarantee...

Ahead of the forthcoming European Union (EU)-Cuba Joint Council on 26 May, our organizations are writing to urge you to ensure that human rights remain at the very centre of the EU’s relations with Cuba, at a crucial moment for the country’s human rights defenders. The magnitude of Cuba’s human...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Cuba in its previous UPR, principally in relation to the rights to freedom of expression and assembly. It also assesses the national human rights framework regarding Cuba’s on-going failure to ratify...

Poster for Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Write for Rights campaign

Case card for Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Write for Rights campaign

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Amnesty International, and Article 19 Mexico and Central America Office write to the President of Cuba to call for the immediate release of jailed journalist Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces amid the sweeping COVID-19 pandemic.

Amnesty International address an open letter to President Miguel Díaz-Canel requesting access to Cuba to monitor the trial of José Daniel Ferrer García, leader of the political opposition group, the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unión Patriótica de Cuba, UNPACU).

In this document, Amnesty International names five prisoners of conscience – people imprisoned solely because of the peaceful exercise of their human rights – and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.

Amnesty International is concerned for the health of Cuban activist, Tomás Núñez Madariaga, currently on a prolonged hunger strike and calls on the Cuban authorities to make public the evidence against him.

Human Rights Council adopts Universal Periodic Review outcome on Cuba. Cuba published its response to states’ recommendations only three days ago. Responding this late undermines this UPR process and reflects a common trend by the authorities to limit constructive dialogue with independent monitors.

The finalization of Raúl Castro’s mandate as President of the Cuban government on 19 April 2018 will mark the end of an era for Cuba. As an independent human rights organization, Amnesty International does not take a position on any country’s political or economic system. But we do use historical...

The Cuban voices at the centre of this briefing, describe feeling weighed down and suffocated in their daily lives. Successive decades of disproportionate and arbitrary use of the criminal law and campaigns of state-sponsored discrimination against those who dare to speak out or try to leave the...