Ibrahim DOMÍNGUEZ AGUILAR

Musician Ibrahim Domínguez Aguilar continued to serve a 10-year sentence in maximum security Boniato Prison in Santiago de Cuba where he has been held since August 2021, reportedly in a collective cell with repeat offenders. He was convicted in an unfair trial of contempt, public disorder and sexual assault in connection with his artivism and participation in peaceful demonstrations in Contramaestre during the #11J protests in 2021 (see Case List 2025). In October 2025, Domínguez Aguilar was beaten by three prisoners on the orders of prison guards, after calling the Cuban government a ‘regime’. Domínguez Aguilar was also reportedly beaten and went on hunger strike for several days in November 2025 in protest at his ill-treatment in prison. 

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted precautionary measures to Domínguez Aguilar in 2022 while he was held under arbitrary pre-trial detention after his initial arrest on 12 July 2021.  Ibrahim Domínguez Aguilar is a rapper from Santiago de Cuba, whose lyrics are critical of the Cuban government.