Cuban Prison Riot Erupts as Economic Crisis Deepens: 'Prisoners Have Risen up Demanding Freedom'

According to the account provided to EFE, police reinforcements arrived at the facility and used "rubber bullets," "pepper ...

Unprecedented videos expose Cuban prison protest; inmates decry hunger, dictatorship

Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for the first time, inmates staging a ...
EL PAÍS English

The odyssey of the first Cubans deported from the United States to Guantánamo

Over 50 migrants were transferred from Louisiana to the prison in December, believing they were being returned to Cuba. After several weeks stranded there, they were returned to the US and then deport ...
Amnesty International Australia

Cuba: Increasing harassment of prisoners of conscience and their families

Increasing harassment and deterioration in the health of individuals detained for exercising human rights reveals a persistent pattern of repression and ...
Yahoo

Cuba sentences former economy minister to life in prison for corruption, espionage

HAVANA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Cuba's Supreme Popular Tribunal on Monday sentenced former economy minister Alejandro Gil to life in prison following a closed-door trial that ‌found him guilty of espionage ...
WTHR

Cuba sentences former economy minister to life in prison for espionage

HAVANA(AP) — Cuba's top court on Monday said a former economy minister was sentenced to life in prison for espionage, in the highest-profile case against an ex-official in recent years on the island.