"The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) rejects the decision by the White House to order deep cuts at Voice of America (VOA), Radio Martí, and other media outlets managed by the United States government. President Donald Trump, through an executive order issued Friday night [March 14], ordered the drastic reduction of staff at the U.S. […]
"The Council for Democratic Transition in Cuba, CTDC for its initials in Spanish, has urged exiled Cubans, the European Union, and international press freedom organizations to establish a fund to sustain independent journalism on the island. Amid a freeze on foreign aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, which has affected Cuba’s […]
"The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP, for its initials in Spanish) recorded a total of 58 violations of freedoms of expression and of the press in Cuba during January 2025, according to its report published this Monday [Feb. 17]. [...] ICLEP counted 23 attacks, threats and/or psychological aggressions, 15 abusive uses […]
"Independent journalist José Luis Tan Estrada recently left Cuba after facing years of harassment, surveillance and threats by the island's authorities. 'I left under extreme conditions. State Security forced me to leave Cuba,' the reporter told Martí Noticias." Read original article (in Spanish)
"On Thursday [Dec. 19], State Security agents arbitrarily detained the director of the magazine La Hora de Cuba, Henry Constantín. The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) demanded the immediate release of Constantin, who is its regional vice president for Cuba and also requested the end of the persecution against independent journalists working on the island." Read […]
"CPJ is alarmed by reports that since mid-September, Cuban state security agents questioned at least eight journalists and media workers from non-state media outlets, many in connection to alleged crimes against the state, leading several to flee the country. [...] Cuban news website El Toque, which operates from exile, reported that the journalists were summoned […]
“Artículo 19 condemns the wave of repression the Cuban state has undertaken since September against independent journalists from digital media in Cuba. This has worsened with the implementation of the Social Communication Law on October 4, 2024. On October 4, Cuban digital media outlets El Toque, Cubanet, Periodismo de Barrio, and Magazine AM denounced a […]
"On Sept. 24, independent journalist Yeris Curbelo Aguilera was sentenced to two years in prison by a court in Guantanamo [Cuba] for the alleged crime of minor injuries. After the trial, Curbelo was transferred to the Guantanamo Combined Prison, according to Martí Noticias. His wife, Odalis Legrá Castellanos, told the Center for a Free Cuba […]
“The highest number of violations against civil liberties in Cuba in July were related to access to digital space, amounting to 46 restrictions, according to the the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and Press (ICLEP, for its acronym in Spanish). [...] The 101 incidents recorded by the entity, whose main headquarters is in Miami, […]
“Immigration officials in Nicaragua denied entry to the Cuban activist and independent journalist Yoel Acosta Gámez and his wife, Alisanni Lores Furones, the legal advisory group Cubalex reported on X. The activist said in a video posted by Cubalex that they bought the tickets three months in advance. They had a flight scheduled for 4 […]
“The independent website El Toque thrived in Cuba during the period of relative openness surrounding the 2016 visit to the island by US president Barack Obama, during which he met with Cuban leader Raúl Castro. But rising tensions with the Trump administration, the transfer of power to a new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in 2019, the […]
"Miami-based Cuban journalist José Jasán Nieves Cárdenas told the Committee to Protect Journalists that he received a threatening text message on June 21 from an unknown number with an Ecuadorian country code, which said, ‘we know exactly where to find you’ and included a photo and video of a car driving past his house. Nieves, […]