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Without Freedom, Without Justice, Without Law / Amir Valle and Elisa Tabakman

New Violations of Ángel Santiesteban’s Rights Amir Valle and Elisa Tabakman, 28 June, 2015 — Today, June 28, 2015, Angel Santiesteban Prats should have been released on parole after having served exactly half of his unjust sentence. In fact, if they had not already violated his rights, he should have been free as of April … Continue reading “Without Freedom, Without Justice, Without Law / Amir Valle and Elisa Tabakman”

Laritza Diversent, the Cuban Lawyer who met with Obama / Cubanet, Manuel Guerra Perez

Cubanet, Manual Guerra Perez, Havana, 30 April 2015 — Laritza Diversent is a lawyer and director of the Cubalx Center of Legal Information, an independent office that has offered free legal advice since 2010. She graduated from the University of Havana in Law (2008), she is married and has a 16-year-old son. What exactly is … Continue reading “Laritza Diversent, the Cuban Lawyer who met with Obama / Cubanet, Manuel Guerra Perez”

Communication About the Prison Situation of Angel Santiesteban

Inexact information published in recent days with respect to the true state of Angel Santiesteban created information and confusion and has been spread on the Internet, causing concern to those in many countries of the world who are concerned about the unjust imprisonment of this writer. For him, after confirmation with family sources and others … Continue reading “Communication About the Prison Situation of Angel Santiesteban”

Communication About the Situation of Angel Santiesteban

The truth is always above all and we must devote ourselves to it. And, before the accumulation of contradictory information about the actual status, location and circumstances that surround the case of the writer Angel Santiesteban, fulfilling the responsibility to be the voice of the writer and not adding our voice to any of the … Continue reading “Communication About the Situation of Angel Santiesteban”

Official Communication: Dengue Fever Confirmed; Angel Santiesteban Released from Hospital

On Saturday the 21st in the afternoon, Angel Santieseteban-Prats was released from the hospital after his diagnosis of dengue fever was confirmed, and he was transferred from Salvador Allende Hospital to the prison facility in Lawton once again. Just yesterday afternoon, Angel began to feel more strength and has been eating with greater appetite, but … Continue reading “Official Communication: Dengue Fever Confirmed; Angel Santiesteban Released from Hospital”

Communication: As of today, Angel Santiesteban has served 6 months in prison, incommunicado

Today, August 28, marks six months since Angel was unjustly imprisoned by the Castro dictatorship, after their having invented crimes he did not commit, making use of his former wife and the mother of his son to perform a show trial in which they were unable to prove absolutely any of these alleged crimes for … Continue reading “Communication: As of today, Angel Santiesteban has served 6 months in prison, incommunicado”

Communication About the Whereabouts of Angel Santiesteban

After several days of uncertainty, we finally know the whereabouts of Angel Santiesteban Prats. They have him confined in a very small military installation that has no name, situated in the Lawton neighborhood, 10 de Octubre municipality, in Havana. While his “whereabouts” are now known, this in no way changes his situation of being “kidnapped” … Continue reading “Communication About the Whereabouts of Angel Santiesteban”

Communication About the Unknown Whereabouts of Angel Santiesteban and the Reponsibility of Raul Castro

Today is the third day that Angel Santiesteban remains kidnapped, whereabouts unknown, at the mercy of the repressive forces of the Castro clan dictatorship. We demand that they inform us where and how he is, and that his family can visit him, consistent with what is expressly established in the law of criminal procedures, and … Continue reading “Communication About the Unknown Whereabouts of Angel Santiesteban and the Reponsibility of Raul Castro”

Urgent Communication: Angel Santiesteban Transferred to a Military Facility in Complete Isolation

The family of writer and blogger Angel Santiesteban Prats have learned that he was transferred to a military facility, where he will not have the monthly visit he is entitled to, according to what the prison officials have told us, nor will he have the three minutes of weekly telephone calls that he had in … Continue reading “Urgent Communication: Angel Santiesteban Transferred to a Military Facility in Complete Isolation”

Urgent Communication: Angel Santiesteban Transferred to Unknown Destination

In a new display of arbitrariness and arrogance ordered by those to whom the Cuban people have been subjected for over half a century, Angel Santiesteban was transferred from Prison 1580 to an unknown location. That was the gift the Castro dictatorship had in store for August 2, his birthday, thus preventing mass demonstrations of … Continue reading “Urgent Communication: Angel Santiesteban Transferred to Unknown Destination”

Communication About the Situation of Angel Santiesteban in Prison 1580 / Angel Santiesteban

In just three days on May 28, it will be three months that our brother and friend Angel Santiesteban Prats has been locked up in a Castro regime concentration paying the price of an unjust sentence for crimes he did not commit. We issue this statement to denounce to international public opinion his living conditions … Continue reading “Communication About the Situation of Angel Santiesteban in Prison 1580 / Angel Santiesteban”

Laritza Diversent: The Pending Emigration Law Should Make No Distinctions Because of Citizens’ Political Views #Cuba

Readers’ interview from Diaro de Cuba The attorney and independent blogger, Laritza Diversent, responds to questions by readers of Diaro de Cuba regarding emigration reform. Ricardo E. Trelles: In your professional life you have to deal with the country’s existing legal system in which laws are formulated and established in an illegitimate way, without citizen participation, … Continue reading “Laritza Diversent: The Pending Emigration Law Should Make No Distinctions Because of Citizens’ Political Views #Cuba”

Annoying Whim / Cuban Law Association, Osvaldo Rodriguez Diaz

The problem of prisons has always been a recurring theme in literature. In Cuba, we can cite Martí, Pablo de la Torriente, and Mencía, among others. During second half of the decade of the forties, the controversy was highlighted in a book of only 100 pages by Dr. Waldo Medina, who was then a judge … Continue reading “Annoying Whim / Cuban Law Association, Osvaldo Rodriguez Diaz”

Prosecutorial Ethics / Cuban Law Association, Alberto Méndez Castelló

By Alberto Méndez Castelló Some days ago, some 400 employees of the General Prosecutor Office of the Republic across the country signed a code of ethics. The notice was published on the front page of the daily Rebel Youth on Saturday, June 9th, under the title “Ethics Are Our Prosecutor”. According to the article, the … Continue reading “Prosecutorial Ethics / Cuban Law Association, Alberto Méndez Castelló”

Solidarity with the Cuban Law Association / Miriam Celaya

Though my regular readers know I don’t usually publish work that I have not written myself, I decided to publish, as an exception, an article from attorney Wilfredo Vallín Almeida, president of the Cuban Law Association (AJC), my friend and traveling companion. The decision reflects the importance of this partnership for its work in support … Continue reading “Solidarity with the Cuban Law Association / Miriam Celaya”