; Whereas Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, independent journalist and leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, has been held in solitary confinement since August 14, 2021, and held incommunicado since March 17, 2023, with his health condition unknown, which was condemned by Amnesty International on June 6, 2023; Whereas artists Maykel Osorbo Castillo Perez and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara of the San Isidro Movement, who participated in the Grammy-winning Patria y Vida and were sentenced to 9 and 5 years, respectively, have been unjustly imprisoned for 2 years, and Otero Alcantara has engaged in hunger strikes to protest his abhorrent treatment; Whereas the Cuban regime has employed so-called Committees for the Defense of the Revolution to force neighbors to spy and turn against each other, which has spread distrust and fear among the Cuban people and caused an environment that is deleterious to a strong social fabric and thriving civil society; Whereas, on July 11, 2021, thousands of courageous protesters gathered throughout Cuba, in every province, to demand libertad and human rights and to express opposition to dictatorship in Cuba; Whereas the Cuban regime reacted to the July 11 protests with violence, arbitrary arrests, often by plain clothes state security operatives, and forced disappearances and by shutting down internet access and calling on supporters of the regime to harass protesters, and prosecuted as many as 790 Cubans for peacefully calling for freedom in the protests; Whereas Cubalex reported that the Cuban regime prosecuted 55 children in the wake of the July 11 protests, imposing prison sentences as long as 23 years, while dozens of children reportedly remain in prison to this day; and Whereas, since Fidel Castro illegitimately and violently seized power, hundreds of thousands of Cuban nationals have fled Communist oppression: Now, therefore, be it