Canel’s administration has once again imprisoned opposition figures released after negotiations with Pope Francis ...

Weston, has penned a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking the Trump administration to help free hundreds of ...

There are as many as 110 women political prisoners in Cuba, most of them peaceful protesters who were detained after mass anti-government demonstrations on July 11, 2024. Many are mothers or the ...

The Madrid-based nongovernmental organization Prisoners Defenders estimates there are at least 1,048 political prisoners in Cuba. The resolution calls on the secretary of state to continue ...

Marta Perdomo agonizes day and night for her two sons Jorge and Nadir, jailed in Cuba for taking part nearly two years ago in the largest anti-government protests since the 1959 revolution. A call ...

Even for those who are traditionally recognized as political prisoners, Cuba rejects the term, ... he was arrested in May 2014 for staging a protest calling for the release of a fellow UNPACU member.

Biden issued a statement Friday calling on the Cuban government to release hundreds of political prisoners detained last year during a rare surge in protests across the country.

Barack Obama has long believed United States Cuba policy should change; he so when he first ran for president in 2008. Back then, though, Sen. Obama stressed that the U.S. should hold Cuba to a ...

In a recent interview, Abreu described what being a political prisoner in Cuba was like for him from 1961 to 1975, years he spent in five of the most brutal jails, labor camps and hospitals.

Cuban President Raúl Castro flatly denied last week that his regime jails political dissidents — a statement experts said was right out of the Soviet playbook.

Cuba has pardoned 787 convicts in response to Pope Francis' Holy Year call to all heads of state for acts of clemency, the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma reported on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama and John McCain are calling for the release of political prisoners in Cuba following Fidel Castro's resignation. Obama said Castro's resignation should "mark the end of ...