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Cuban internet access cut amid free expression protest; journalist harassed

"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 […]

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State security agents detain Cuban journalist during live broadcast

"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 […]

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Cuban journalists were victims of 234 acts of repression in 2020, according to APLP

"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, […]

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'Wave of arrests' of journalists, human rights defenders and dissident artists reported in Cuba

“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 […]

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'They are not going to make me change': journalist in Cuba denounces Internet blockade

"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 […]