Reports are emerging of religious leaders being among those detained amid unprecedented nationwide protests in Cuba…
Protests erupted across the country on 11 July in response to Cuba’s ongoing and severe economic crisis and a record surge in corona-virus cases, before expanding to criticisms of the Cuban Communist Party (CCP)’s decades-long hold on power, crackdown on human rights and pro-democracy movements, and management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In response, the government appears to have disconnected the internet in most of the island’s major cities, but reports of violations targeting protesters and religious leaders have continued to emerge. Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel also made public calls for ‘revolutionaries’ to take to the streets to defend the Revolution by fighting protestors.