26 January 2020: Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was released after police detained him near his girlfriend Claudia Genlui Hidalgo's home.

International human rights organisation Freemuse and CADAL, based in Denmark and Argentina respectively, express their concern about the resurgence of repression of referents of Cuban independent culture and express their solidarity with the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, recently arbitrarily detained.

Cuban police have arrested performance artist Tania Bruguera and several other Cuban artists over Decree 349 protests.

A group of Cuban artists was arrested before a scheduled public meditation as part of their campaign against the controversial new Decree 349.