The most recent report from the NGO Prisoners Defenders recorded a total of 1,179 political prisoners in Cuba at the end of October.
LIMA, Peru – Political prisoners in Cuba have used hunger strikes as a way to demand basic rights in the face of repression and excesses by the regime authorities. Currently, at least 10 are registered in the island’s prisons, according to the magazine. Tense Wings.
The platform formed the underreporting based on recent reports from independent media such as Radio Marti and civil society organizations such as Cubalex and the Cuban Center for Human Rights.
The list includes a dozen political prisoners in different prisons in the country:
Daniel Alfaro Fría — Guanajay Prison (Artemisa)
Aníbal Yasel Palau Jacinto — Melena 2 (Mayabeque)
Yosvany Rosell García Caso — Cuba Yes (Holguín)
Walfrido Rodríguez Piloto — Jóvenes del Cotorro (Ivanov), Havana
José Antonio Pompa López — Agüica (Matanzas)
Onaikel Infante — Agüica (Matanzas)
Josiel Pilot Guide — Agüica (Matanzas)
Lázaro Piloto Romero — Agüica (Matanzas)
Adrián Fernando Domínguez Hidalgo — Agüica (Matanzas)
Óscar Corría Sánchez — Contramaestre Police Unit (Santiago de Cuba)
The magazine also amplified the complaint of Yosvany Rosell García Caso’s wife, one of the few relatives who has been able to know of the situation of his loved one, who wrote this Sunday on his Facebook profile.
“Today, Sunday, November 16, he has reached his 25th day on hunger strike (…) Making visible is protecting. Let’s not leave him alone,” he highlighted.
According to the most recent report by the non-governmental organization Prisoners Defenders, at the end of October 2025 in Cuba there were a total of 1,179 political prisoners.
In your monthly sharethe Madrid-based NGO highlighted that 11 new political prisoners had entered the list during October.
Prisoners Defenders warned that epidemics of numerous infectious diseases (Dengue, Tuberculosis, Oropouche fever or Chikungunya, among others), lack of food, mistreatment and torture, and denial of access to basic medical care affect all penitentiary centers.
“Cuban prisons are a constantly growing drain of disease and death, and we warn about the seriousness of the growth of repression in a context marked by the health crisis and the overcrowding of prisoners,” the organization emphasizes.
