Cuba

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CUBA: Another imprisoned journalist starts hunger strike New York, May 21, 2004 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has learned that imprisoned Cuban journalist Normando Hernández González, who is jailed at Kilo 5 1/2 Prison in western Pinar del Río Province, has started a hunger […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 7 May 2004 CPJ press release: CUBA: Imprisoned journalist on hunger strike New York, May 7, 2004 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the health of imprisoned Cuban journalist Manuel Vázquez Portal, who has been on a hunger strike since April 30 to protest […]

(WPFC/IFEX) – The following is a resolution on Cuba passed by members of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, meeting in Belgrade for World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2004. The organisations that have signed on to the resolution are listed below: INTER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTING INTERNATIONAL PRESS INSTITUTE WORLD […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN is dismayed at prison sentences handed down on 27 April 2004 to journalists Léxter Téllez Castro and Carlos Brizuela Yera, and lawyer Juan Carlos González Leiva. Téllez Castro, director of the Agencia de Prensa Libre Avileña (Avileña Free Press Agency), Brizuela Yera, director of the Cooperativa de Periodistas […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 19 March 2004 IAPA press release: IAPA Concerned over Harassment of Relatives of Imprisoned Journalists in Cuba Miami (March 19, 2004) – The Inter American Press Association (SIP) protests the harassment of wives and relatives of the imprisoned independent journalists by journalists from the Cuban government. Blanca Reyes, wife […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is an 18 March 2004 IAPA press release: IAPA calls on Cuba to free jailed independent journalists MIAMI, Florida (March 18, 2004) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today marked the first anniversary of the unleashing of a new wave of repression in Cuba that led to 75 political dissidents […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has voiced relief after a Paris court ordered the organisation to pay only 6,000 euros (approx. US$7,400) to Diane Diaz Lopez, the heir of Cuban photographer Alberto “Korda” Diaz Gutierrez, for non-compliance with a 9 July 2003 court order banning the organisation from using Korda’s famous photograph of Ernesto “Che” Guevara wearing […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 23 January 2004 IAPA press release: Cuba: Journalist goes on hunger strike, IAPA protests government’s continuing violation of human rights MIAMI, Florida (January 23, 2004) – The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today held the Cuban government responsible for the health of independent journalist Léster Téllez Castro, who has […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has strongly condemned an attack on Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist Jorge Carlos Forbes. The journalist was assaulted as he was leaving the opening of a contemporary Cuban art exhibition at the Great Arch of La Défense, in Paris, on 20 January 2004. Earlier that same evening, members of the organisation had demonstrated […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has protested against a plan by the Cuban authorities to crack down on unauthorised Internet users by placing a total ban on the use of the regular telephone network to get online. The government has called on Etecsa, Cuba’s sole telecommunications operator, “to deploy all technical means to detect and block Internet […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has strongly condemned the recent assault on Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, a journalist who was brutally beaten by prison guards in the Guantánamo provincial prison, in eastern Cuba. The organisation urged the authorities to punish his assailants and protect prisoners from further harm. On 31 December 2003, three prison guards forcibly took […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CUBA: Another imprisoned journalist on hunger strike New York, December 19, 2003 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the health of imprisoned Cuban journalist Ricardo González Alfonso, who has been on a hunger strike for the last 12 days. González Alfonso, […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has condemned the harsh jail conditions of Cuban journalists and dissidents and accused the authorities of setting them up for attack by fellow prisoners after journalist Adolfo Fernández Saínz was beaten unconscious by a cell mate. The protest came as imprisoned journalists and dissidents went on a one-day hunger strike to mark […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 18 November 2003 CPJ press release: CUBAN JOURNALIST RELEASED AFTER SIX YEARS IN PRISON Tells CPJ of physical and psychological torture New York, November 18, 2003-Imprisoned Cuban journalist Bernardo Rogelio Arévalo Padrón was released last week after serving his six-year sentence on “disrespect” charges. In a phone interview with […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has welcomed the 13 November 2003 release of independent journalist Bernardo Arévalo Padrón after six years in prison for “insulting” President Fidel Castro and Vice-President Carlos Lage. The organisation noted, however, that Cuba is still the world’s biggest prison for journalists. Twenty-nine other independent journalists are still being held in Cuban jails. […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 12 November 2003 CPJ press release: CUBA: CPJ concerned about imprisoned journalists’ welfare New York, November 12, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is extremely concerned about the lack of information regarding the situation of imprisoned Cuban journalists Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández, Adolfo Fernández Saínz, and Iván Hernández Carrillo, […]