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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Wins Prince Claus Impact Award

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu September 6, 2022September 7, 2022

The jailed artist was praised for his activism against censorship and authoritarianism in Cuba.

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Cuba Sentences Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara to Five Years in Prison

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

Rapper Maykel “Osorbo” Pérez was sentenced to nine years.

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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Speaks Out From Prison Ahead of Trial

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco May 23, 2022June 24, 2022

“I am an artist and a human being struggling to get out of this unjust prison, but every day my love of free and honest art grows firmer,” the persecuted artist said in a statement from a maximum-security prison in Cuba. 

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Cuban Artists Test the Frontiers of Political Dissent

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 16, 2022March 16, 2022

The artists in Umbral, or “threshold,” address the dystopia of voicing dissent on the island and the tension of existing as a Cuban citizen anywhere in the world.

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Artists Remain Detained in Cuba as Anti-Government Protests Continue

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 20, 2021July 21, 2021

Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is set to be transferred to the Guanajay maximum security prison, facing charges of contempt, resistance, and assault.

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John Akomfrah, Carrie Mae Weems, and Others Demand Release of Dissident Cuban Artist

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 31, 2021June 2, 2021

“Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is being detained solely for peacefully expressing his ideas through his art and for his nonviolent defense of human rights,” the open letter reads.

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Cuban Artist Forcibly Hospitalized During Hunger Strike

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 3, 2021May 3, 2021

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has been without food or fluids for seven days after Cuban police raided his home and took several artworks.

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Following Peaceful Protest, Cuban State Security Traps Artists in Apartment

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 25, 2020November 28, 2020

Seven of them have been on hunger strike for more than 140 hours after police intercepted attempts by a neighbor to drop off food and supplies.

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Tania Bruguera Among Artists Detained in Cuba Before Protest Against Police Brutality

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 30, 2020November 5, 2020

Bruguera was arrested in her home under pretenses of “pandemic contagion,” preventing her from attending a demonstration against the killing of Hansel Ernesto Hernández Galiano.

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Case Dismissed: On Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Arrest and Release

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

The artist has been detained over 20 times in two years. But this time, his colleagues on the island mobilized in his defense — and that made all the difference.

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Hundreds Demand Cuban Government to Free Detained Artist

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 5, 2020

Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who was arrested last Sunday while on his way to an anti-censorship protest, could face between two and five years in prison.

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Cuban Artist and Activist Arrested en Route to LGBTQ+ Censorship Protest

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 4, 2020

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was planning to attend a “kiss-in” convened by the local LGBTQ+ community in response to the government’s censorship of a film broadcast.

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