DEMOCRATIC SPACES JOINS the global campaign calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Cuban artists and human rights defenders Luís Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maikel Osorbo as well as all Cuban political prisoners.

Fabricated charges against Luís Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maikel Osorbo such as Public Disorder, insulting symbols of the fatherland, defamation of government officials are in violation of freedom of speech and other articles human rights as reported by Amnesty International

Historic tabling of Petition E-3574 in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada. The petition calls on the Government of Canada to lead an international effort to advocate for the release of all political prisoners in Cuba, calls on Magnitsky sanctions on human rights abusers in the Cuban regime. It calls on the Gov of Canada to officially recognize the opposition in Cuba as valid interlocutors in Canada-Cuba relations.

Felix Navarro Rodriguez is one of Cuba’s most respected pro democracy leaders. He has devoted his life to the cause of democracy in the island. On March 2, 2022 he was sentenced to 9 years in prison. His daughter Sayly Navarro was sentenced to 8 years in prison. This brief article offers a summary of Felix Navarro’s life and struggle for democracy as well as a letter of solidarity from the Council of Democratic Transition in Cuba.

Sobre como el Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas ha escrito una serie de leyes para avalar legalmente y legitimar el derecho de activistas por los derechos humanos, periodistas independientes y sociedad civil de acceder fondos y financiación de fuentes domesticas e internacionales. Esto se aplica a defensores de los derechos en Cuba y el mundo. Sin financiación no es posible ejercer los derechos humanos. Por ello el Artículo 143 que planean adicionar al Código Penal Cubano es violatorio de la Ley Internacional y una flagrante violación a los derechos humanos.

International law as stated by the Human Rights Council offers legal protection and legitimacy to independent journalists, human rights defenders and civil society seeking foreign funding to carry out their activities. Access to funding and resources is part of the exercise of human rights.

A campaign calling for the release of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, contemporary Cuban artist and national coordinator of the San Isidro Movement. He has been arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned since July 11, 2021. In September 27 he began a hunger strike in the Guanajay Prison in protest for his unjust confinement and calling for the release of all political prisoners in Cuba.

En el canal de Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta conversando sobre las protestas del 11J en Cuba y sugerencias de Democratic Spaces al MP Michael Chong, Critico de Relaciones Exteriores del Partido Conservador sobre imponer sanciones individualizadas a miembros de la dictadura cubana responsables de la brutal represión.