"On Monday [March 15], the repressive organs of the regime in Santa Clara raided the headquarters and confiscated the working equipment of the small newspaper 'Páginas Villareñas,' belonging to the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP, for its acronym in Spanish), based in Miami. [...] Reporters Leticia Torres, Raíza López, Yoandy […]
"On March 9, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued Resolution 24/21, by which it granted precautionary measures of protection in favor of Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces, after considering that, in the framework of his work as an independent journalist, he is in a serious and urgent situation of risk of irreparable […]
"Since February 24, dozens of employees of ICLEP, a Cuban press freedom organization that also publishes seven free newspapers in the country, have been unable to connect to the internet on their mobile phones, according to press reports and Normando Hernández, ICLEP’s general manager, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. At least 42 journalists […]
"On Jan. 27, starting at around 3:30 p.m. internet access was shut down on the island for approximately two hours, according to news reports and several local journalists posting on Twitter. To get around the shutdown, journalists use VPNs, according to one local reporter who spoke to CPJ via messaging app on the condition of anonymity, citing security concerns. The shutdown […]
"Independent CubaNet journalist Camila Acosta was detained by the Cuban political police on Wednesday morning [Jan. 27], in Havana, while she was broadcasting live via Facebook. Acosta was preparing to participate in a congregation called by the 27N, 'two months after the historical events,' in a place in the capital that the members have not […]
"Journalists were victims of 234 acts of repression, 80 more than the year before. [...] The maneuvers of the Political Police against independent journalists were carried out in ten provinces and included different types of attacks: arrests, interrogations, house raids, application of Decree 370, physical aggression, threats of different characteristics, defamation in official media, evictions, […]
“In the last 48 hours, agents of the State Security of the Ministry of the Interior of Cuba (Minint), a feared apparatus that acts as political police of the communist regime of Havana, unleashed a wave of arrests of opponents and human rights activists, sources of Cuban dissidence denounced today. The arrests were recorded as […]
"Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces, a CubaNet journalist and former political prisoner, denounced that the island's regime blocked him from the Internet, preventing him from accessing personal work media such as email and the Nauta Hogar service. Quiñones explained that the difficulties in connecting to the network of networks began in mid-September, a few days […]