A 16th Cuban journalist has been released from prison and gone into exile in Spain, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Journalist Miguel Galván Gutierrez was freed as part of the pledge Cuban President Raul Castro made in July to release 52 political prisoners who were arrested in 2003 as part of the "Black Spring," an island-wide crackdown on dissidents.
Galván, who had been sentenced to 26 years in prison, was an independent journalist for Habana Press news agency, according to the Latin Amerian Herald Tribune. Four journalists arrested during that crackdown remain in jail, along with one other journalist who was later arrested, according to CPJ research.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
