To promote a nonviolent transition to a Cuba that respects human rights, political and economic freedoms, and the rule of law.
Cuban artist and prisoner of conscience Maykel Castillo Pérez Osorbo turned 40 years in a Cuban prison today.
Maykel Castillo Pérez Osorbo in the Patria y Vida video.
Maykel Castillo Pérez Osorbo is an artist, husband, father, and an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who today marked his 40th birthday behind bars, and on May 18, 2023 marked two years in prison for exercising his fundamental rights. Freedom House observed Maykel’s birthday today over social media.
On August 1, 2023 Amnesty International reported that Maykel has been threatened by fellow inmates where he is being held since April 2023, and the Cuban authorities have not ensured his safety.
Maykel Castillo Pérez Osorbo in the studio.
Imagine for a moment spending 24 months behind bars, 730 days unjustly imprisoned and not provided adequate healthcare, and 17,520 hours to reflect on this outrage. Please engage in an exercise in empathy. Take out your watch or cell phone and sit in silence for one minute as time passes, and imagine that minute multiplied 1,051,200 times.
Maykel Castillo Pérez Osorbo backed by Cubans in the San Isidro neighborhood.
Below is an example of one of the protest music videos that contributed to Maykel's imprisonment by the Cuban dictatorship. Send a message to the Cuban government for its arbitrary detention of this artist and human rights defender, and over a thousand others more, sign the petition to expel Cuba from the UN Human Rights Council.
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