“The health condition of Zoila Pérez, mother of Cuban political prisoner José Gabriel Barrenechea, is rapidly worsening as prison authorities deny the dissident journalist and professor the possibility of saying goodbye to her in her last days. Despite the seriousness of her condition and the explicit request of Zoila herself in a video broadcast on […]
“Independent Cuban journalist Carlos Michael Morales, was summoned again this Monday [April 21] by the Municipal Court of Caibarién [central Cuba], along with his employer, in the midst of a campaign to harass him deployed by State Security. Morales was sentenced in May 2024 to 8 months imprisonment for the crime of 'disobedience', a sanction […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the arrest and prolonged pre-trail detention of Cuban freelance reporters Yadiel Hernández and José Gabriel Barrenechea, who both write for the online newspaper 14ymedio, and calls on Cuban authorities to release them immediately. [...] Hernández, 33, was arrested Jan. 24 while reporting on drug trafficking in […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed its concern on Saturday [March 29] about the imminent risk of deportation of Cuban independent journalist and former political prisoner Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, currently residing in the United States under humanitarian parole. According to CPJ's official X (formerly Twitter) account, Valle Roca and his wife, Eralidis Frómeta, […]
"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 […]