Missing and detained after July 11
The arrests, summary proceedings, and individual stories that followed Cuba’s nationwide demonstrations.
In the days after July 11, members of the National Revolutionary Police, riot units, and State Security carried out arrests across Cuba. Families and civil-society groups searched for people whose locations were unknown.
This page preserves several individual stories documented on the original SOS for Cuba site. Statuses can change; current information should always be checked with active prisoner-monitoring organizations.
Anyelo Troya González
Cuban photographer Anyelo Troya González documented the demonstrations on July 11. He was later detained and sentenced to one year in prison after a summary proceeding, without a defense lawyer present, for filming the protests.
Anyelo Troya González’s public profile ↗Dina Stars
Cuban YouTuber Dina Stars was detained by state security while appearing on live television and discussing the arrests of activists, demonstrators, and journalists.
“I hold the government responsible for anything that may happen to me.”
Moments later, she told the program’s host: “I have to go. They told me to accompany them.”
NPR report on the live detention ↗Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
Artist and San Isidro Movement leader Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara published a video on July 11 saying he was going into the streets and calling for democracy. He was detained and transferred to a maximum-security prison.
José Daniel Ferrer García
José Daniel Ferrer García, a human-rights activist and leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), was detained on July 11. His family reported that authorities denied them contact and access to information about his condition.
His wife and son publicly demanded access to him and said he was being held in solitary confinement.
Journalists and bystanders
The repression also affected people documenting events. Spanish-born Associated Press photographer Ramon Espinosa was attacked by police while covering a demonstration in Havana. Independent journalists, activists, artists, students, and minors were among those reported detained.
Arbitrary detention is not an isolated feature of July 11. It sits within a larger system of restrictions on expression, assembly, independent media, and political participation described in our human-rights overview.