Freemuse and Shouts cooperated on the interview with repeatedly arbitrary detained Cuban visual artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was detained while sitting on a street and holding a sign referring to the Sunflower Revolution.

Transgender rapper and activist Rosa Luz received threats online after she posted an image on her Facebook account promoting a new single.

Singer Roxana Carabajal and dancer Sandra Farías detained after trying to stop the police from arresting young people without a face mask.

On 18 August, Maykel Osorbo was detained with no apparent reason by Cuban police while talking with another person.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántra and Maykel Osorbo were arrested before Castro’s birthday. The authorities suspected they might organise a manifestation.

Artist Patricia Isaza's artwork, Pricktator, was censored, and her rights infringed, by the Howland Cultural Centre in Beacon, New York.

Adriana Tamariz was discharged from her office after organizing an event where an art project was assumed to be a criticism of the government.

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a defamation lawsuit against actor Sacha Baron Cohen for implying that he is a paedophile in his TV show.

Kansas state newspaper removed their cartoon in which they compare the mask mandate to the Nazis ordering Jews to board cattle cars.