Announcement Nov 10, 2026 Announcing Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Participation in HRF’s Art in Protest Residency For years, Cuban artist and dissident Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has used art to challenge authoritarianism and defend freedom of expression. His work has come at an extraordinary personal cost, including years of imprisonment by the Cuban regime.
Human Rights Dispatch Nov 6, 2026 Cuba Arrests Yoani Sánchez as Hong Kong Sentences Joshua Wong to 10 Years HRF and partner organizations issued a joint statement condemning the Hong Kong government for handing down an additional 10-year sentence to pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong. It is his second sentence under the National Security Law, which has contributed to the rapid deterioration of freedoms in Hong Kong
Human Rights Dispatch Nov 5, 2026 Hong Kong Sentences Joshua Wong, Cuba Arrests Camila Acosta, and more HRF continues to monitor the ongoing protests in India against a controversial revision of the voter list by the country’s Election Commission. On Nov. 1, opposition parties from the INDIA Bloc led protests demanding the resignation of the chief election commissioner.
Newsletter Nov 5, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #145 This week, two stories involving the centralized cryptocurrency exchange Binance reveal how financial intermediaries can compromise both user funds and privacy.
Op-Ed Oct 21, 2026 Cuba is, again, drumming up opposition to U.S. embargo. It’s all based on lies | Opinion On Oct. 28, the United Nations General Assembly is set to vote once again on Cuba’s resolution condemning the American embargo, and it will likely pass.
Human Rights Dispatch Oct 19, 2026 Standing with China Zion Church Leaders, Cuban Political Prisoners, and more. China’s new Entry and Exit Regulations expand the Chinese Communist Party’s power to prevent travelers from leaving the country under broadly defined “national security” concerns.
Op-Ed Oct 6, 2026 Impunity for Crimes Against Humanity Is Feeding Authoritarianism in Latin America Dictators in Latin America are responsible for mass atrocities and crimes against humanity, considered some of the most serious violations under international law.
Newsletter Oct 1, 2026 Tyranny Tracker Newsletter #2 In August, the Putin regime designated HRF and its work as “undesirable,” criminalizing HRF’s work inside Russia and threatening anyone who engages with it — including Russian citizens living abroad — with fines and imprisonment.
Op-Ed Sep 30, 2026 Energy is running out in Cuba, but repression continues This month, Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel presided over a ceremony marking 65 years of the country’s prison system, which state media labeled a “just and humane” achievement.
Human Rights Dispatch Sep 30, 2026 HRF Condemns Rwanda’s Song Censorship, Uganda Jails Praise Aloikin, UN Documents Nicaragua Crimes, and more. HRF condemns the abduction and subsequent imprisonment of award-winning Ugandan human rights activist and HRF #FreedomFellow Praise Aloikin over a social media video.
Op-Ed Sep 29, 2026 Lights Are Out in Cuba. The Repression Isn’t. This month Miguel Díaz-Canel presided over a ceremony marking 65 years of Cuba’s prison system, which state media called a “fair and humane achievement.” Last week the national grid collapsed for the sixth time this year, and foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez flew to New York to tell the United Nations that Cuba’s suffering is Washington’s fault.
Newsletter Sep 24, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #139 In Russia, organizers of an international youth festival reportedly created multiple versions of the internet, including an unrestricted network for foreign visitors and a censored one for Russian citizens.
Newsletter Sep 17, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #138 In Iran, the clerical dictatorship doubled the price of gasoline beyond subsidized quotas from 5,000 to 10,000 tomans per liter. With inflation above 87% and food prices also doubled, security forces are now deployed around fuel stations in at least 11 cities.
Human Rights Dispatch Sep 14, 2026 Venezuela Digital Blackout, Cuba Rearrests Dissidents, and WP Engine Blocks HRF Tracker HRF condemns the Cuban regime’s systematic persecution of critics and dissidents and its ongoing revictimization of former political prisoners. Andy García and all other prisoners of conscience held on politically motivated charges must be released immediately.
Newsletter Aug 6, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #132 In Syria, the transitional government replaced the Assad-era pound, which lost more than 99% of its value since 2011. The new pound removes two zeros from the old currency, but the process has created new barriers for Syrians holding old banknotes outside the formal economy, especially those who are unbanked, far from Damascus, or reliant on cash.
Human Rights Dispatch Jul 28, 2026 Venezuela’s Systemic Repression, US Targets Cuba, Azerbaijan Denies Medical Care HRF welcomes new U.S. sanctions targeting officials and entities linked to the Cuban regime’s military-run conglomerate GAESA, its energy sector, and its “medical missions,” which have long been denounced as a state-sponsored human trafficking scheme that generates billions in revenue for the dictatorship.
Press Release Jul 18, 2026 HRF Condemns the Forced Exile of Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara NEW YORK (July 18, 2026) – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the news that artist and prisoner of conscience Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is no longer behind bars after five years of unjust imprisonment, and condemns the Cuban regime for forcing him into exile as the price of his freedom.
Op-Ed Jul 7, 2026 Decades Late, Cuba Approves Serious Market Reforms Prosperity is good in itself, though China and Vietnam show it doesn’t necessarily lead to political freedom. For more than six decades, Cuba has been one of the few places on earth where the disastrous economic policies of the socialist experiment persisted.
Op-Ed May 23, 2026 Thirty Years Late, Justice Comes Knocking on Raúl Castro’s Door The indictment of the elderly Cuban tyrant has been taken as a move in a bigger geopolitical game. But the underlying crime deserves to be remembered.
Op-Ed Apr 2, 2026 Loud on the Embargo, Silent on the Dungeons On the night of March 21, 2026, Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed for the third time in a month, the result of a fuel shortage triggered by a U.S.-imposed oil embargo, decades of underinvestment in a crumbling gridand, most consequentially, the post–Nicolás Maduro halt of Venezuelan crude, on which Cuba had depended for years to cover roughly a quarter of its oil needs.
