Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has been awarded the 2025 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent.
The recognition comes from the Human Rights Foundation, honoring individuals who use creative expression to challenge authoritarian regimes.
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Otero Alcántara is the founder of the San Isidro Movement — a collective of artists and dissidents who rose to prominence in 2018 by confronting censorship and advocating for civil liberties in Cuba.
Through provocative performance art and symbolic acts of resistance, he became one of the most visible voices in Cuba’s pro-democracy movement.
He was arrested during the historic July 2021 protests and later sentenced to five years in prison following a closed trial.
In 2022, the United Nations declared his detention arbitrary and called for his immediate release.
Today, he remains behind bars in Guanajay maximum-security prison.
The award will be presented on May 26th at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway.
This is The Havana Post. Cuban News Brief.