Cuban Penal Code News Today

From our Bureau of Penal Code Prestidigitation with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Tolerance, Compassion, and Social Justice According to the NGO Prisoners Defenders --based in Spain -- the true number of political prisoners in Cuba is much higher than the official count. Even worse, this situation has existed for decades. The camouflage

The authorities in Santiago de Cuba conducted a police operation that resulted in the arrest of several individuals involved in an international drug ...

Yoani Sanchez writes in 14yMedio from Havana via Translating Cuba: Spending One’s Youth in Prison, the Cuban Regime’s Punishment for Filming a Protest She was 21 years old when she took her mobile phone and recorded part of the popular protests that shook the city of Nuevitas, in the Cuban province of Camagüey, in August

Before ending up in a dungeon, people prefer to hang up their ideological mask or emigrate to any country where peaceful protest...

From our Bureau of Gallant But Costly Quixotic Gestures with some assistance from our Bureau of Socialist Social Justice A young man who attacked a Castro, Inc. vehicle with a machete is in big trouble. He smashed all the windows in the car, and Castro, Inc. is now demanding he cough up a huge sum

Is abortion a choice or a political issue in Cuba? The current Cuban Penal Code assumes it as a crime when it is carried out without the consent of the mother

The latest report from the World Prison Brief now ranks communist Cuba as the country with the second-highest incarceration rate in the world. Cuba is second only to El Salvador, which recently incarcerated thousands of murderous gang members who have been terrorizing the country. Of course, if you take into consideration that Cuba is in

Not that anyone expects anything to come of this, but it's refreshing to see someone at the UN call out the Castro dictatorship for its modern-day slavery and the nations that buy Cuban slaves. There is no doubt Cuba's communist regime is selling doctors and other professionals as slave labor to nations willing to participate

The list adds media and social network personalities from the Cuban community living in the US for inciting sedition and disorder.

For young people in communist Cuba, expressing discontent with the government doesn't result in a citation or a fine, but in years in a Castro gulag. This is socialism in action. Via CubaNet (my translation): Prosecutors seek 15 years in prison for Cuban who painted criticism of Diaz-Canel The young Cuban man Jorge Luis Boada