They release independent journalist Ángel Cuza after a year and a half in prison

The independent journalist Luis Ángel Cuza Alfonso was released this Saturday after a year and a half in political prison, independent organizations reported.

Cuza was sentenced on November 7, 2023 to one year and six months in jail for the alleged crime of «public disorder.»

«The State Security Officer announced his freedom to final In a post on Facebook The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP).

He also suggested to leave the country, a strategy with which the regime seeks to silence critical voices and neutralize the activities of opponents and dissidents. «They should not have people like us here, that we are frontal,» Cuza said in statements to Aduncuba cited by ICLEP.

According to the organization, Cuza replied that, once in freedom, he would resume his work as an independent communicator and human rights activist.

The Cuban Observatory of Cultural Rights celebrated the release of the urban artist. «During his time in imprisonment he was the victim of numerous acts rape of his most elementary rights,» he said in a statement published on social networks.

Cuza has been persecuted, harassed and detained multiple times by the Political Police due to his activity as an independent reporter, the ICLEP recalled. In 2021, he turned eight months in prison for participating in the peaceful protest of April 30 of that year on Bishop Street in Havana Vieja, and released in January 2022.

The communicator reported regularly to Cubanet For 2023, so he was «persecuted, harassed and detained several times by the Political Police», with a total of 10 arbitrary arrests and eight surveillance operations, said the independent medium in a note about his release.

Cuba appears in place 165, between 180 countries, in the Press freedom index in the world 2025 of reporters without borders. The report indicates that the Cuban Constitution establishes that the media are owned by the State, «which makes journalism – out of the official press – in a de facto clandestine.»

«Since 2021, the space of freedom created by a brief» spring «of independent media online has been gradually closed, and repression of journalists has intensified,» says the report published last Friday.