Cuba

(RSF/IFEX) – Roberto Santana Rodríguez, a contributor to the Miami-based website Cubanet, has been harassed by Department of State Security agents since February 2006 and ordered to stop writing, RSF said on 27 April, reiterating its criticism of the use of Law 88 (about Cuba’s independence and economy) to threaten dissidents with heavy prison sentences. […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 6 April 2006 CPJ press release: CUBA: CPJ concerned by reports of mistreatment of journalists New York, April 6, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by reports that one jailed independent Cuban journalist has been beaten, a second has been denied medical treatment in prison, and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the release of Lamasiel Gutiérrez Romero, a correspondent for the Miami-based Nueva Prensa Cubana website, on completion of a seven-month sentence on 22 March 2006, but deplores the fact that she is on probation. “We welcome her release and we hope the 23 other journalists held in Cuban […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed about the state of health of two imprisoned journalists who are on hunger strike, Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta and Guillermo Fariñas Hernández. RSF calls for a humanitarian gesture from the Cuban authorities and for foreign embassies in Havana to intercede. “How are we to interpret this indifference […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 16 March 2006 CPJ press release: CUBA: CPJ concerned about health of two journalists on hunger strike New York, March 16, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today about the health of two independent journalists on hunger strike in Cuba, one of them in prison. Guillermo […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it feared that court summonses issued to independent journalists Oscar Espinosa Chepe and Jorge Olivera Castillo mean they will be sent back to jail. The two men, who were imprisoned in the March 2003 crackdown, were released on health grounds at the end of 2004. They then both […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 February 2006 CPJ press release: CUBA: CPJ condemns ongoing harassment of independent journalists New York, February 24, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Cuban authorities for continuing to harass independent journalists and failing to provide adequate medical treatment for those in prison. Independent journalist Jorge Olivera […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has expressed concern that a renewed crackdown has been unleashed against the independent press in Cuba and that independent journalists are suffering harassment. Since the so-called “black spring” crackdown of 2003, those journalists still working are subject to constant pressure from Cuban authorities. The Cuban Commission for Human Rights […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 February 2006 CPJ press release: CUBA: Argentine writer blocked at Havana airport New York, February 21, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Saturday’s deportation of writer, columnist and historian José Ignacio García Hamilton by Cuban authorities at Havana’s José Martí International Airport. Immigration authorities barred the […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called for the immediate release of José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández, jailed since the March 2003 crackdown, whose prison doctors have said his state of health is incompatible with imprisonment. “The condition of José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández requires care that cannot be provided in jail, the prison doctors have recognised […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is an IAPA press release: IAPA worried about health of Cuban journalist on hunger strike Requests investigation into attacks against reporters in The Bahamas Miami (February 10, 2006) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) draws attention to the serious condition of journalist Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, who has been on a […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is extremely anxious about Guillermo Fariñas Hernández, director of the Cubanacán Press news agency, who is on the verge of death after a nine-day total hunger strike in which he has refused both food and water. The journalist has said he is ready to die unless the Cuban authorities give […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced support for Guillermo Fariñas, the editor of the Cubanacán Press independent news agency, who has consumed no water or food since midday on 31 January 2006 and has told President Fidel Castro in an open letter he will pursue his hunger strike “to the death” if he and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: CUBA – State security agents threaten young journalist with imprisonment Reporters Without Borders today condemned the use of threats by state security agents on 29 December against 21-year-old Liannis Meriño Aguilera, the editor of the independent Youth without Censorship news agency. “We again protest against the […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 20 December 2005 RSF press release: CUBA – Police cannot find file of ailing journalist held for past five months without trial Reporters Without Borders today denounced the continuing detention of journalist Oscar Mario González Pérez as “arbitrary and absurd” after the Havana police told his lawyer they could […]

(IAPA/IFEX) The following is a 13 December 2005 IAPA press release: IAPA calls for release of Cuban journalist, protests harassment MIAMI, Florida (December 13, 2005) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today added its voice to the international clamor for the release from prison of Cuban independent journalist Ricardo González Alfonso, who is serving […]