Five Years On, Hundreds of Cuban Protesters Still Behind Bars
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Cuba arrives exhausted and with the horizon in penumbras to the fifth anniversary of the social outbreak that began in two to the political process begun in January 1959. 11J placed in the streets the unrest accumulated especially during the pandemic. The demonstrations in Havana and other cities of the island surprised a government that first invoked the hard hand to discipline the "counterrevolutionaries", then recognized the reason for the co…
To say that on July 11, 2021 it meant a before and a after in Cuba is to describe the profound mutation of a social discontent that went from apathy to action, transforming small opposition groups into a majority of the population. On Sunday, 2021, there was the most massive protest against the regime registered in 67 years: thousands of citizens took to the streets of the whole island demanding “freedom” and better living conditions, consummati…
When I write this article, the whereabouts of the Cuban opposition Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is still unknown. Shortly before the five-year sentence to which the...
Five Years On, Hundreds of Cuban Protesters Still Behind Bars
Click to expand Image Riot police walk the streets after a demonstration against the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Arroyo Naranjo Municipality, Havana, Cuba, on July 12, 2021. © 2021 Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images Five years ago, on July 11, 2021, Cuba experienced its largest nationwide demonstrations since the 1959 Revolution, as thousands took to the streets amid severe shortages and calls for greater rights and freedoms. The g…
The human rights organisation Prisoners Defenders denounces a new record of repression in Cuba two days after the fifth anniversary of the protests of 11 July 2021. (ANSA)
Prior to the fifth anniversary of the mass protests in Cuba on 11 July 2021, Prisoners Defenders has registered more than 1300 political prisoners on the socialist island. In the run-up to the anniversary, the Havana government has further intensified its action against potential leaders of new protests, according to a report by the human rights organization based in Madrid. In June alone, 32 new political prisoners were recorded, including auth…
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