Tens of thousands of prisoners are subjected to systemic forced labour, producing goods such as coal and cigars for export ...

Black Liberation Army member Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a state trooper ...

Cuban officials said Joanne Chesimard, who escaped prison in 1979 after being convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper ...

Madrid-based Prisoners Defenders says Cuban inmates are used to produce cigars at seven facilities across the island country ...

Joanne Debora Byron, a member of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted in the killing of New Jersey State Police Trooper ...

Tupac Shakur's godmother, Assata Shakur, died at age 78 on Sept. 25. News of Assata's death was first shared by her daughter ...

Assata Shakur had lived in exile in Cuba since 1979, after escaping a prison sentence for killing a police officer.

Hundreds of demonstrators detained for taking part in island-wide July 2021 protests in Cuba have been “subject to serious abuses" in prison, Human Rights Watch reported Friday. The global advocacy ...

Byron was known as Joanne Chesimard when a gun battle broke out during traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike in Middlesex ...

This is the first time the U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Díaz-Canel, Cuba's handpicked president and head of the Communist Party, a civilian figure who was spared in several rounds of ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison ...