Cuba

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 12 December 2005 RSF press release: Government urged to let Women in White leave Cuba to receive prize in Strasbourg Reporters Without Borders today called on the Cuban authorities to allow five representatives of the Women in White movement of wives and mothers of imprisoned dissidents to travel to […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Journalist Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández of the independent Félix Varela news agency, who was jailed along with 26 other journalists in a spring 2003 crackdown and finally released for medical reasons on 1 December 2005, has described to Reporters Without Borders the psychological ordeal of his imprisonment: “The world of prison is the […]

(CPJ/IFEX): The following is a 7 December 2005 CPJ press release: CPJ alarmed by worsening health of journalist held without charge A Cuban journalist detained without charge for nearly five months has lost 30 pounds (13.5 kilograms) in prison and is suffering from serious health problems, his wife told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Oscar […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF condemns a 22 November 2005 operation by government officials and progoverment groups in which intimidation and force were used to prevent participants in a training workshop for independent journalists from attending a party to mark the end of the course. “We condemn this all the more firmly as it was targeting journalists […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CUBA: Government detains two foreign journalists New York, December 2, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Thursday’s detention of two foreign journalists who were reportedly interviewing opposition activists in Cuba’s central Sancti Spíritus province. The government was expected to expel the two journalists. Police […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is 1 December 2005 CPJ press release: Jailed Cuban journalist released on medical parole CPJ calls for release of 24 others still unjustly imprisoned New York, December 1, 2005 – Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández, an imprisoned Cuban journalist who wounded himself and waged repeated hunger strikes to call attention to his […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced deep concern about the condition of imprisoned journalist Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández after his wife and mother reported that he tried to commit suicide twice and is still determined to end his life. He has been detained since March 2003 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence. “Mayo […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has voiced relief over the decision by imprisoned Cuban journalist Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona on 4 October 2005 to end the hunger strike he had begun 25 days earlier, but the organisation stressed that it was still very worried about his state of health. “We are reassured by this news but at […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has voiced deep shock at the public beating which armed pro-government supporters gave Guillermo Fariñas, editor of the independent Cubanacán Press agency, in the central city of Santa Clara on 16 September 2005 after he took part in a protest against the arrest of a dissident. “This extremely violent attack on Fariñas […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CUBA: CPJ concerned about health of jailed journalist on hunger strike New York, September 23, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the health of jailed independent journalist Víctor Rolando Arroyo who went on hunger strike two weeks ago and is now in […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has voiced great concern about the plight of journalist Oscar Mario González Pérez of the Grupo de Trabajo Decoro independent news agency, who is still awaiting trial more than 50 days after his arrest on 22 July 2005 in Havana. “González has been held in four different police stations since his arrest […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Following a new crackdown on Cuba’s independent journalists in which several have been arrested, RSF has written to the British government, the current holder of the European Union presidency, expressing concern and asking it to make any softening in the EU stance on Cuba strictly conditional on the release of the independent journalists […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 25 August 2005 CPJ press release: CUBA: Second independent journalist jailed in less than a month New York, August 25, 2005 – Cuba has jailed a second independent journalist who covered an unprecedented opposition meeting in May. Albert Santiago Du Bouchet Hernández was arrested on August 6, tried three […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 August 2005 CPJ press release: CUBA: Imprisoned journalist on hunger strike New York, August 24, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply worried about the health of imprisoned journalist Adolfo Fernández Saínz, who began a hunger strike last week to protest the mistreatment of another imprisoned […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF condemns threats made against independent journalist Lucas Garve, the president of the Freedom of Expression Foundation, who was awoken in his Havana home by soldiers from a rapid intervention unit at around 10:30 p.m. (local time) on 8 August 2005 and told he would “pay dearly” if he went out the next […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has voiced deep concern upon learning that independent journalist Lamasiel Gutiérrez Romero, of the Nueva Prensa Cubana news agency, was to be tried before a municipal court in Nueva Gerona (Isle of Youth) on 9 August 2005, on charges of “civil disobedience” and “resisting authorities”. “The Cuban government is once again trying […]