Among the victims are activists, peaceful protesters and common citizens imprisoned by the Cuban regime.
Lima, Peru – The Non -Governmental Organization Prisoners Defenders recorded in its most recent report that at the end of August 2025 in Cuba there was a new record of 1,185 political prisoners, 34 more than the previous month.
In Your monthly partthe NGO based in Madrid stressed that 13 new political prisoners have entered the list during August “to add another tragic record.” In the same period, four casualties have also been recorded on the list, three of which are due to the full compliance of sanctions.
“The fourth leave of the list of political prisoners in Cuba was due to the forced exile of Yara Nieto Muñoz, released under the condition that the island left,” the report underlines.
The NGO denounced that Aymara was incommunicado and transferred directly from a prison of forced labor on the outskirts of Havana to the airport, without allowing him to communicate with his relatives, and expatriated to the Dominican Republic.
The cases of the 13 new political prisoners who have entered the list, highlights Prisoners Defenders, reflect a recurring pattern of political persecution, disproportionate use of force, manufacture of positions and application of extremely severe criminal convictions, all with the aim of silencing any form of opposition to the Cuban regime.
Among the victims are peaceful activists and protesters, common citizens, many of them under conditions of special vulnerability, subject to cruel, beating and long precautionary arrests ordered by the accusation and without any judicial protection.
Also, the NGO highlights 472 prisoners With medical pathologies serious and 41 political prisoners between bars with serious mental health disorders without medical or psychiatric treatment
“Cuba has totaled 1,882 political prison In X (before Twitter).
The Castro regime has 33 minors among their political prisoners, 30 of whom comply with sentences, while three still cross criminal proceedings without judicial protection. On the other hand, to date 122 women imprisoned for political reasons continue.
