The Cuban government is preparing a law aimed at further restricting public access to information on the island, as announced by the National Assembly.
Activists and officials in the United States are intensifying pressure on the Cuban government to release artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a member of the activist San Isidro Movement (MSI) who has been detained since July with no trial slated, and who is currently waging a hunger strike, Artnet News reports. Otero Alcántara is said to be being held at Guanajay, a maximum-security prison roughly 35 miles southwest of Havana, having been sent there without receiving a hearing after being snatched by authorities while on his way to one of the historic demonstrations that roiled Havana last