Prisoners Defenders

Since the advent of the second Trump administration, the island has been under punishing coercive economic measures that amount to a kind of collective punishment of the Cuban people as a whole.

meanwhile according to the group prisoners defenders there are currently more than 1300 political prisoners in cuba many of them dating back to the 2021 anti-government protests that rocked the island and among them some of the island's leading lights of music art literature and journalism along with feminists lgbtq activists and hundreds of ordinary citizens The rapper Michael Orsobo Castillo Perez, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, is currently serving nine years in prison for contempt and public disorder.

But his real crime was to dare to stand up to the regime's abuses and hypocrisy in his music.

Also convicted of public disorder, contempt, and resistance, the poet and activist Maria Cristina Garrido Rodriguez remains in jail.