Laura Pollan, a founder of Cuba's Ladies in White, the island's most prominent dissident group, died Friday at age 63 after a brief illness. Her death comes at a difficult time for the group, as ...

The Ladies in White are a Cuban dissident group formed in 2013 by the wives of political prisoners. Some of the group's members will meet US President Barack Obama next week when he visits Cuba.

The 'Damas de Blanco,' a group of Cuban women seeking the release of political prisoners, held a protest in front of Raúl Castro's office Monday.

Cuban authorities detained a prominent dissident and dozens of her colleagues early Sunday, then rounded up more activists while they staged a weekly protest march through Havana just days before ...

The Cato Institute has awarded their 2018 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to the Ladies in White. The award is well-deserved. A Cuban civil rights group, it was formed in March 2003 ...

Cuban activist, and founder of the opposition group Ladies in White, Laura Pollan died Friday. She was 63. For almost a decade, Pollan participated in weekly protest marches for the release of ...

The Ladies of Puerto Principe Appeal to their Relatives to Abandon the Cuban Cause-The Spanish Policy. Additional Exeeutions-An Abandoned Rebel Craft Destroyed. A British Opinion of the Strnggle ...

HAVANA - Cuban authorities detained about 70 members of the dissident group Ladies in White over the weekend, drawing fresh attention to human rights issues days ahead of a visit by Pope Bendict ...

La Havana, Cuba – The ashes of Laura Pollan, the talismanic leader of Cuba’s Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) human rights movement, were recently laid to rest under a pine tree on Havana’s ...

Cuba's Ladies in White held their weekly protest march without incident on Sunday just before Pope Benedict's visit to the island and said they wanted to meet with him, if only for a minute, to ...

The Ladies in White is a group of mothers, sisters and other relatives of those imprisoned for political reasons by Fidel Castro’s regime. They walk to Mass in central Havana every Sunday, each ...

Laura Pollan, a founder of Cuba's Ladies in White, the island's most prominent dissident group, died Friday at age 63 after a brief illness. Her death comes at a difficult time for the group, ...