"Cuban journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa has been recognized with the International Press Freedom Award, given annually by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). [...] The prestigious organization says Jiménez is 'a prominent and outspoken voice within Cuba's media community, providing fresh perspectives on the challenges for independent journalists and reporting on issues rarely covered by […]
"Activists, opponents and independent journalists have been besieged in their homes or detained in Cuba in the last hours on the first anniversary of 11J, the largest anti-government protest in decades. Some of them have denounced their situation on social media, in other cases, it has been NGOs that have made their cases public. News […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday called on Cuban authorities to refrain from sentencing freelance journalist Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca to prison, to drop all charges against him, and to release the journalist, who has been held for more than a year in pretrial detention. In a closed-door hearing at the Marianao Municipal Tribunal in […]
"'You don't know the bunch of pesos they pay me to go after people like you,' an official of the Cuban regime said Thursday, June 30, to journalist Henry Constantine, director of the independent media La Hora de Cuba. Constantine was detained 60 meters from his home in Camagüey, Cuba, by a State Security agent who […]
"American journalist Anthony DePalma, former international correspondent of The New York Times and a recognized authority on Latin American issues, was detained upon his arrival in Havana on June 8th on a flight from the United States and expelled by Cuban authorities after police interrogation. [...] 'I can't say that the uniformed agents were aggressive, but […]
"Independent Cuban journalist Pedro Luis Hernández is at home safe and sound, after the political police in Havana deported him to the province of Sancti Spíritus, where he lives with his wife and prevented him from carrying out his work, according to what the also training director of the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression […]
"The political police fined and closed the precautionary measure of house arrest against independent Cuban journalist Camila Acosta. She remained [in house arrest] for ten months pending trial, due to her participation as a reporter in the anti-government demonstrations of last July 11, in Havana. (...) 'Accepting this fine means that, without even being able […]
"The new Penal Code of Cuba, approved this Sunday, May 15, in the National Assembly, has raised criticism from the beginning from dissidents and activists, who denounce that it will suffocate social protests and independent journalism. […] What is most worrying, the experts say, are the new criminal types for public disorder and against State […]
“On May 3, World Press Freedom Day was celebrated, which in Cuba means a lot. In a country where press freedom is rare and access to independent media is restricted, these five journalists have impacted the Cuban media scene with their distinct and independent perspectives.” Read the original story (in Spanish)
“The right to freedom of the press is experiencing an extremely delicate moment in countries such as Nicaragua, Venezuela, El Salvador, Cuba or Mexico, black spots on a continent in which 24 journalists have died in the last 12 months, Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) officials said on Tuesday, April 19. In his speech at the […]