Spanish National Court rejects Cuban family's asylum appeal
The court concluded that the events described did not demonstrate persecution on grounds covered by international-protection law.
Spain's National Court dismissed appeals by four Cuban citizens against the Interior Ministry's refusal to grant them asylum and subsidiary protection. The judgment was issued July 31, 2026.
The family arrived in Spain on September 3, 2019, and applied for international protection nine days later. The father said reprisals began after he requested different medicine for a son with cancer, and he reported threats, detentions and obstacles to obtaining medication.
The court said that, even if the alleged events were hypothetically accepted as true, they did not establish persecution on any ground protected by Spanish asylum law.