Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is a Cuban artist, activist, and political prisoner, who is currently being held in Guanajay maximum-security prison. He is the founder of the San Isidro Movement, a collective of artists and dissidents that emerged in 2018 to challenge censorship and demand greater freedoms in Cuba. He gained international attention for his performance art and peaceful protests, including hunger strikes and symbolic acts of resistance. Otero Alcántara was arrested during Cuba’s historic 2021 protests and sentenced to five years in prison, following a closed trial. In 2022, in response to a submission by HRF, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared his imprisonment to be arbitrary and urged the Cuban regime to release him immediately.