Cuban prisoners and detainees

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as prime minister from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.

former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba

Cuban revolutionary (1918-2014)

Catholic cardinal (1936–2019)

Cuban activist (1967-2010)

Cuban poet (1932–2000)

Cuban dissident (1940–2013)

Cuban dissident

Cuban activist

Cuban engineer and journalist

Cuban dissident (1969-2017)

Cuban dissident journalist

Cuban dissident

Cuban dissident (1942–2023)

Cuban human rights activist

Cuban dissident