; Whereas international human rights organizations have condemned the Cuban regime for violating human rights and fundamental freedoms and have called for the immediate release of peaceful demonstrators, including organizations and individuals such as— (1) Human Rights Watch, which assessed that the Cuban regime committed systematic human rights violations in response to massive antigovernment protests in July 2021 with the intent of punishing protesters and deterring future demonstrations; (2) Amnesty International, which has called on the Cuban regime to guarantee the human rights of Cuban prisoners of conscience and hundreds of other individuals arbitrarily detained for exercising their human rights; (3) former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who has called on the Cuban regime to release protesters and several journalists arrested at various demonstrations and denounced the excessive use of force by the regime; and (4) the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which has condemned state repression and the use of force during peaceful social protests in Cuba and urged the regime to engage in dialogue to address citizen demands; Whereas Cuba has some of the most restrictive laws on freedom of assembly and freedom of the press in the world, which have only further intensified since the demonstrations on July 11, 2021, with the passage of amendments to Penal Code of the Republic of Cuba on December 1, 2022, which limit freedom of expression online by criminalizing the sharing of undefined “fake information”; Whereas the peaceful protests in 2021 continue to inspire numerous protestors across Cuba seeking to advance the fundamental rights of the Cuban people, such as the May 8, 2023, protests in the town of Caimanera