Press Release Apr 14, 2017 HRF to UN: Denounce Human Trafficking in Cuba The report was sent earlier today to coincide with Giammarinaro’s scheduled meeting with Cuban authorities to “determine the progress made and the challenges Cuba faces in addressing trafficking for sexual and labor exploitation.”
Press Release Apr 14, 2017 HRF to Cuba: End Brutal Assault on UNPACU Members During the raids, state agents confiscated all computers and cellphones they found and detained over a dozen activists and coordinators.
Press Release Apr 12, 2017 Cuban Dissident Artist El Sexto to Premiere Art Show in San Francisco On opening night, El Sexto will enter a replica of the cell in Havana’s maximum-security Combinado del Este prison where he was once jailed, and will remain there for three days on a hunger strike, consuming only water.
News Apr 7, 2017 LA Times reports on El Sexto’s Art in Protest exhibit At the tail end of 2014, Danilo Maldonado Machado, the graffiti artist known as “El Sexto,” was detained by the authorities as he made his way to a public park in Havana to stage a work of protest art.
News Apr 3, 2017 Radio Martí on HRF’s open letter on film censorship Radio Martí’s Roxana Romero discusses HRF’s open letter written to the Havana Film Festival New York criticizing the Festival’s decision to remove Carlos Lechuga’s award-winning film, Santa and Andrés, from competition after pressure from the Castro regime.
Press Release Mar 30, 2017 Open Letter on Cuba Censorship at the Havana Film Festival New York The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) writes to express profound disappointment about the censoring of the film Santa and Andrés from competition at the 18th Havana Film Festival of New York (HFFNY). HRF calls on you and the HFFNY to reconsider this decision and allow Santa and Andrés to compete at the festival.
Press Release Mar 14, 2017 Cuba: Female Activists Beaten, Stripped Naked By State Agents Benítez, a member of the pro-democracy network Red de Facilitadores Electorales (REDFE), was scheduled to conduct a workshop at her home in Santiago de Cuba to train prospective independent candidates for upcoming municipal elections.
News Mar 13, 2017 CNN en Marcha interviews Rosa María Payá Rosa María attended SXSW to join HRF’s panel, “The Real Information Revolution,” with other activists who use technology to promote freedom in closed societies.
News Feb 22, 2017 In El País, HRF profiles OAS leader Luis Almagro Al anunciar que viajaría a La Habana a recibir un premio de manos de disidentes que piden democracia en Cuba, el secretario general de la OEA, Luis Almagro, ha forzado al régimen de Raúl Castro a prohibirle el ingreso con argumentos “bastante ridículos”.
News Jan 21, 2017 Václav Award Winner “El Sexto” in DW Danilo Maldonado “El Sexto” fue encarcelado sin juicio el pasado 26 de noviembre por haber escrito “Se fue” en varios edificios de La Habana tras la muerte de Fidel Castro.
Press Release Jan 21, 2017 Cuba: Graffiti Artist Imprisoned for Anti-Castro Protest Released HRF calls once again on Cuba’s dictatorial government to drop all criminal charges against him and provide guarantees that it will cease harassing and detaining him arbitrarily for exercising his right to freedom of expression.
Press Release Dec 19, 2016 El Sexto’s Lawyer Expelled from Cuba After False Detention & Interrogation Motley was in Cuba for three days as the international attorney for political prisoner Danilo “El Sexto” Maldonado, a celebrated Cuban artist imprisoned since Castro’s death more than twenty-one days ago.
Press Release Dec 16, 2016 HRF to UN: Inquire into Arbitrary Detentions in Cuba; “El Sexto” should be released The prominent Cuban artist and activist was beaten and taken from his home in Havana on November 26, the day after Fidel Castro’s passing.
Press Release Dec 16, 2016 HRF to Cuba: Allow El Sexto to Meet With His International Lawyer Yesterday, Motley tried to visit Maldonado at his last known detention site, Havana’s El Combinado del Este maximum security prison. Motley was barred from seeing Maldonado, and was denied access to basic information regarding official charges.
Press Release Dec 15, 2016 HRF to UN: “El Sexto” Should be Released This Monday, Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted an individual complaint to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), requesting that they initiate proceedings to investigate the arbitrary arrest and ongoing detention of Danilo Maldonado Machado, also known as El Sexto.
News Jul 22, 2016 HRF Commemorates the Fourth Anniversary of the Death of Cuban Dissident Four years after Payá’s death in a mysterious car accident, his family is still searching for the truth. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Cuban pro-democracy dissident Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas.
Press Release Jun 21, 2016 Cuba: Activists Arrested After Meeting With OAS Secretary General Both activists were detained for six hours last week at José Martí Airport in Havana when returning to the country after taking part in meetings with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro.
Press Release Jun 13, 2016 HRF to Cuba: Stop Harassing Dissident Doctor In March, Herrera — a surgeon at the Calixto García University Hospital in Havana and a deputy editor for the Hablemos Press independent news agency — was barred from leaving the country to attend a human rights conference in the Czech Republic.
Press Release Mar 30, 2016 HRF to Cuba: Stop Harassing El Sexto El Sexto has been detained three times and held for three to five hours each time since his return to Cuba earlier this month.
News Mar 28, 2016 Javier El-Hage writes on Obama’s visit to Cuba in El País El presidente Obama ahora ostenta el dudoso honor de ser el único presidente en ejercicio de Estados Unidos que ha posado en decenas de fotografías con uno de los hermanos Castro en la mismísima Habana, en pleno año 57 de su régimen totalitario.
