Cuba
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The Penal Code presently in force provides for the...
- News items in the archive
- 119
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Cuba is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 119 news items on Cuba, from 1999 to today.
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- JUNE 2, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
SPAIN. ‘THOUGHT IS FORBIDDEN’ OPENS IN MADRID
44 panels with the images of some of the 75 activists detained in March 2003 by the Castro regime in Cuba are part of the exhibition inaugurated in Madrid in the presence of the Euro MP Emma Bonino and City Councilor for Employment Ana Botella.
- MAY 20, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
DEMONSTRATIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE “ASSEMBLY FOR THE PROMOTION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA”
“Freedom, Rights and Democracy in Cuba” states a banner during the protest organized by the Radical Party outside the Cuban embassy in Rome.
- MAY 13, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
CUBA. OLIVIERO TOSCANI’S EXHIBITION ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN CASTRO’S REGIME OPENS IN CADIZ
to keep public attention on the plight of political prisoners and the repression of dissent in Cuba two years after the wave of crackdowns, HOC, Con Cuba en la distancia and Reporters sans frontiers have promoted an exhibition in Cadiz by Oliviero Toscani
- APRIL 28, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
EU. EURO LAWMAKERS BLAST EU'S SOFTER LINE TOWARD CUBA
the European Union's legislative branch expressed its dissent with the executive over policy toward Cuba, condemning a shift seeking rapprochement with the Communist-ruled island that included suspension of diplomatic sanctions.
- APRIL 20, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- APRIL 14, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
U.N. RIGHTS BODY KEEPS PRESSURE ON CUBA
the United Nations top human rights body backed a call by the United States to keep pressure on Cuba by renewing the mandate of a special investigator into alleged abuse there.
- MARCH 16, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
CUBA. FOR SOME HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, IT’S A HAPPY ISLAND, D’ELIA
Hands Off Cain responds to the petition signed by 200 intellectuals in defence of the Cuban regime by bringing at the forefront the grave violations of human rights perpetrated by Castro’s regime.
- JANUARY 31, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
regarding the EU’s decision to temporarily put an end to diplomatic sanctions...
regarding the EU’s decision to temporarily put an end to diplomatic sanctions...
- JANUARY 1, 2005CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code presently in force provides for the death penalty for 112 offences, 33 of which are common crimes.
The Penal Code presently in force provides for the death penalty for 112 offences, 33 of which are common crimes.
- NOVEMBER 29, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba released a number of dissidents...
Cuba released a number of dissidents...
- NOVEMBER 3, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
A pro-human rights group, the outlawed Cuban Commission...
A pro-human rights group, the outlawed Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHyRN), asked for a moratorium on the death penalty to be implemented in Cuba, the commutation of sentences already handed down and the banning of the
- OCTOBER 11, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
The 75 dissidents - many of whom supporters of the...
The 75 dissidents - many of whom supporters of the 'Varela project' that aims to gather signatures for a referendum to propose the introduction of a multi-party system in Cuba - were arrested by Castro's regime on March 18, 2003
- OCTOBER 11, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
As concern for the 75 civil liberties activists arrested...
As concern for the 75 civil liberties activists arrested in Cuba in March 2003 and currently jailed under harsh detention conditions rises, Hands Off Cain and the Italian Helsinki Committee are promoting an exhibition in Rome to draw attention to their pl
- JULY 4, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
As concern for the 75 civil liberties activists arrested...
As concern for the 75 civil liberties activists arrested in Cuba a year ago and currently jailed under harsh detention conditions rises, the Tuscan Regional Government, Hands Off Cain and the Italian Helsinki Committee are promoting an exhibition to draw
- APRIL 26, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
With the adoption on April 22 a resolution on the situation...
With the adoption on April 22 a resolution on the situation in Cuba after its emergency debate, the European Parliament again called on the Cuban authorities to immediately release all political detainees
- APRIL 21, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty...
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 60th UN Commission on Human Rights
- APRIL 16, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
"The Theatre of the Absurd continues in Geneva," read...
"The Theatre of the Absurd continues in Geneva," read an editorial in The Miami Herald
- APRIL 15, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
The top UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed...
The top UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by an international monitor
- APRIL 15, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US...
The UN Human Rights Commission narrowly passed a US backed resolution criticizing Cuba and calling on it to accept a visit by international observers
- APRIL 11, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Penal Code presently in force provides for the death penalty for 112 offences, 33 of which are common crimes.
The Penal Code presently in force provides for the death penalty for 112 offences, 33 of which are common crimes.
- MARCH 17, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International issued a statement calling on...
Amnesty International issued a statement calling on the Cuban government to release what it called "prisoners of conscience
- MARCH 9, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
Two groups of Cuban dissidents announced they were...
Two groups of Cuban dissidents announced they were starting a campaign to gather petitions for a moratorium on the death penalty on the communist-ruled island
- FEBRUARY 10, 2004CubaDEATH PENALTY
A leading dissident group unveiled a list of proposals...
A leading dissident group unveiled a list of proposals it planned to submit to local Cuban government representatives in favor of free speech, private business ownership and the formation of labor unions
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
The news agency Agencia Brasil web site reported that...
The news agency Agencia Brasil web site reported that Fidel Castro's government had announced an end to executions by firing squad in Cuba
- JULY 8, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's dissident daughter,...
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's dissident daughter, accompanied by Sergio D'Elia, Secretary of HOC, met with vice-premier Gianfranco Fini
- JULY 7, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Alina Fernandez Revuelta, the estranged daughter of...
Alina Fernandez Revuelta, the estranged daughter of Fidel Castro, called for stronger international condemnation of the Cuban communist regime
- APRIL 29, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a friend of...
Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a friend of Fidel Castro, condemned the death penalty "anywhere and for any reason," in reply to US writer Susan Sontag, who said she was troubled that the Colombian writer had not condemned the April 11 executions i
- APRIL 29, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Italian Chamber of Representatives approved a motion...
The Italian Chamber of Representatives approved a motion presented by the ruling faction calling for an end to Italian aid programmes, bilateral or multilateral, to Cuba if its "Communist regime" persists in "arbitrary arrests and summary executions
- APRIL 26, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
The Pope expressed to Fidel Castro his "deep pain"...
The Pope expressed to Fidel Castro his "deep pain" and "deep sorrow" for the execution of the three hijackers of a Cuban ferry
- APRIL 24, 2003CubaDEATH PENALTY
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty...
Cuba abstained from the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva