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.
Human Rights Dispatch Jul 18, 2026 Cuba Forces Artist Otero Alcántara Into Exile After five years of imprisonment, Cuban artist and prisoner of conscience @LMOAlcantara is no longer behind bars.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 26, 2026 Sudan Disappears Women Journalists, South Sudan Schedules Elections, Cuba Frees Teen Political Prisoner, and more. Election officials in South Sudan have set Dec. 22 as the date for the country’s long awaited first general election since independence in 2011.
Press Release Feb 1, 2023 HRF Succeeds in Joint UN Petition: Cuba Condemned for Detention of Artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara & Hamlet Lavastida The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) issued an opinion concluding that the June 2021 and July 2021 arrests of Cuban artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Hamlet Lavastida, respectively, were arbitrary and violated international law.
