Press Release May 5, 2017 Havel Prize Recognizes Efforts in Bahrain, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent.
Press Release Apr 21, 2017 Venezuela: HRF Condemns Murders Carried Out by Paramilitary Groups Both Ramírez and Moreno were killed during anti-authoritarian demonstrations that have rocked Venezuela over the last few days.
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 Coup in Venezuela: Maduro Regime Shuts Down Legislative Power Today, Venezuela’s Supreme Court has effectively shut down the democratically-elected (and opposition-controlled) National Assembly.
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.
News Mar 28, 2017 Bloomberg quotes HRF on corruption in Latin America In Latin America, crooked business goes by many names. Coima, propina, the bite and — my favorite — “milk for the kids” are just a few. However you call corruption, people in 13 countries in the Americas agreed that it is one of the region’s biggest scourges, according to pollster Latinobarometro.
Blog Post Mar 17, 2017 HRF to OAS Members: Do Your Job, Apply Democracy Clause in Venezuela Almagro’s 75-page report further urged Venezuela to hold general elections that satisfy all international electoral observation standards without delay, to immediately release all political prisoners, and to return to the constitutional order with full respect for the separation of powers.
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”.
Press Release Feb 18, 2017 HRF to Testify Before U.S. Senate Kasparov will offer his expert testimony at 2:45 p.m. It will be broadcast live on the U.S. Senate website.
News Feb 17, 2017 In El Nacional, HRF urges OAS to defend Venezuelan democracy “Queremos reconocer su claridad y firmeza frente a los embates antidemocráticos del régimen del presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro”, señalaron en la misiva el presidente de HRF, el venezolano Thor Halvorssen, y su secretario general, Garry Kasparov
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.
News Jan 13, 2017 Thor Halvorssen in Verdens Gang on Venezuelan democracy Venezuela kan ikke lenger regnes som en stat med en regjering, institusjoner og et sivilt samfunn.
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.
