Jorge Olivera Castillo (b. Havana, Cuba, 1961) is a Cuban poet and dissident.
[1] He was briefly detained in 1992 for trying to leave the country on a raft;[1] in 1993, he left his position at ICRT and began writing reports for Radio Martí, a U.S.-funded, Miami-based station critical of the Cuban government.
[1] Olivera Castillo was arrested in 2003 as part of the Black Spring crackdown and sentenced to eighteen years in prison for writing articles "against national independence and Cuba's economy".
[4] In prison, he spent nine months in solitary confinement, and suffered from a range of health problems.
[5][3] After international pressure,[6] he was released for health reasons after serving only 18 months of his sentence, but remained under close supervision.