Thanks to your support and taking action, the appeal for an end to repression in Cuba and the release of all Cuban political prisoners has amassed over 400 petitioners.

The situation in Cuba remains dire and is worsening on the human rights front, with predetermined political show "trials" continuing to mete out up to 30-year prison sentences for nonviolently protesting this past summer.

San Isidro leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, jailed since July 11, 2021 is on his 15th day of a hunger strike protesting his unjust imprisonment.  We are deeply concerned for his plight.

Fredy Beirut, 64, and his daughter Katia, 36, filmed protests in La Guinera, near their home in Havana, with hundreds of other protesters the following day, and were each sentenced to 20 years in prison on December 23, 2021.

German tourist and dual citizen, Luis Frómeta Compte was sentenced to 25 years in prison on December 23, 2021 for spontaneously filming a demonstration in Havana for private purposes with his smartphone while visiting relatives.

On January 31, 2022 the NGO CubaLex reported over social media that "the Internet was cut off for mobile data in the municipality of October 10, at least in the vicinity of the court. Today the protesters continue to be placed on trial, there are six minors among them. Let's be vigilant." Thirty three protesters were charged with sedition, and six of them under 18 years of age subjected to these politicized proceedings.

Family members of the 33 facing long prison terms, and human rights activists gathered nearby at the Juan Delgado Park and held a nonviolent protest that was quashed by the political police and a rapid response brigade. Witnesses said that all the participants were beaten up and taken to the police.

Cubalex at 7:39pm over social media reported that Cuban officials had "violently detained women: mothers, aunts, sisters, grandmothers who were in the vicinity of the court. Cubalex listed the following activists arrested: Camila Rodríguez, Carolina Barrero, Tata Poet, Daniela Rojo and students arrested: Leonardo Romero Negrín, Alexander Hall They also arrested relatives Yudinela Castro, Yesenia Diaz and the entire family of Duanis, including the 18-year-old sister and the 60-year-old grandmother. Yunaiky's relatives were released because the grandmother fainted, reported Cubalex.

Between December 13, 2021 and February 4, 2022, over 330 Cubans have been subjected to political show trials for participating in peaceful 11J protests.

Please help us to continue to spread the word and highlight this reign of terror, while also demanding accountability.