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HAVANA (AP) — Two members of a loose-knit group of dissident artists have been sentenced to prison in Cuba, the country's prosecutor's office said Friday. Maikel Castillo was sentenced to nine years for attacks and defamation against the country's institutions and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, 34, to five years for insulting national symbols.

Prosecutors are seeking 6 years for rapper Maykel Castillo and seven years for visual artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.

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HAVANA (AP) — Two dissident artists went on trial in Cuba on Monday, facing years in prison after being arrested last year following protests, according to other activists. Prosecutors are seeking a 10-year sentence for rapper Maykel Castillo and six years for artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, according to art curator Claudia Genlui.

Charges include public disorder, disrespect, resisting authority

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Leidy Laura Hernández is the founder of the first animal refuge in Santa Clara and regularly use Facebook to organize animal rescue operations throughout central Cuba. Her husband, Omar Mena, is a dissident rapper who uses music to criticize the regime, making them both targets. Mena was last arrested on January 29; Cuban dissidents regularly face arbitrary arrests and police detentions, often never being told what crime they allegedly committed. Hernández herself has become a target for usin...

Cuban Culture Minister Filmed Beating Journalist During Protest 28 Jan 2021 A group of Cuban dissidents who had assembled before the Ministry of Culture headquarters in Havana on Wednesday filmed Culture Minister Alpidio Alonso physically assaulting a journalist and stealing his mobile phone. Alonso was among several Communist Party officials who resorted to violence in the face of a small, peaceful crowd assembling in front of the ministry to demand a say in how their government manages the a...

25 Jan 2021 A coalition of 15 Catholic priests working in Cuba defied the Communist Party and decades of Vatican distance from Cuban politics to publish a letter this weekend urging the Cuban people to “co-involve” themselves in their own liberation from communism and work to “break the chains” of the Castro regime. The letter, published in English by the U.S.-based human rights organization Global Liberty Alliance, states plainly, “Cuba needs political changes.” “We, as believers...

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