Press Release Oct 14, 2015 Cuba: HRF Celebrates Life and Legacy of Laura Pollán HRF volunteers filmed this only a few months prior to Pollán’s abrupt and mysterious death in a Havana hospital.
Press Release Aug 26, 2015 HRF to Cuba: Free El Sexto El Sexto was arrested on December 25, 2014 while he was on his way to put on a performance art piece called “Rebelión en la Granja”—the title in Spanish of George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm—which included two pigs decorated with the names Fidel and Raúl.
Press Release Aug 13, 2015 HRF Condemns Threats Against Lead Singer of Porno para Ricardo The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the harassment and threats made by Cuban state security agents against Gorki Águila, lead singer of the anti-dictatorship rock band Porno para Ricardo.
Report Jul 22, 2015 The Case of Oswaldo Paya (English) Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas was a Cuban human rights and democracy advocate. Payá was one of the most important leaders of the Cuban opposition due to his influence founding and leading the Varela Project..
News Jul 22, 2015 Foreign Policy on HRF’s new legal report about the mysterious death of Payá Exactly three years ago, prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá was traveling in a Hyundai sedan from Havana to Santiago de Cuba along with three other people when the car struck a patch of gravel and veered off the road, striking a tree and killing him and one other passenger.
News Jun 28, 2015 HRF Reports on Oswaldo Paya’s Death EFE on the findings of HRF’s new legal report about the mysterious death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá in 2012.
Press Release Jun 22, 2015 HRF Report on Oswaldo Payá’s Death; Evidence Suggests Government May Have Killed Him To mark the third anniversary of the death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) published a legal report today highlighting the inaccuracies and inconsistencies of the official government investigation following Payá’s death in 2012.
