Human rights in Cuba
Among the complaints of violations of Human rights in Cuba as of 2025 are repression and punishment of dissent and public criticism, arbitrary detention, harassment, and intimidation of government critics, independent activists, journalists and political opponents by authorities, lack of due process, including the right to fair and public hearings before an impartial and independent judiciary; overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, lack of access to adequate food and water for those imprisoned; economic privation such as prolonged electricity blackouts, acute shortages of essential goods and services -- food, medicine, and others; government control of all media, censorship and restriction of outside information, critics and independent journalists, prohibitively high prices for internet access; restrictions on recognition for transgender people; restrictions on religion such as laws against holding worship services in private homes even in areas without churches. At least some Human Rights groups see Cuba's policies in the context of the long standing embargo of the country by Cuba's much larger neighbor (the United States).