Cuba

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 6 March 2003 RSF press release: Journalist beaten by prison guard “Che” censored at cigar festival in Havana Reporters Without Borders today voiced deep concern about the conditions of detention of journalist Carlos Brizuela Yera, a contributor to the independent news agency Colegio de Periodistas Independientes de Camagüey (CPIC), […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 14 February 2003 CPJ press release: CUBA: Argentine professor detained for interviewing independent journalists New York, February 14, 2003-Cuban authorities detained Argentine journalism professor Fernando Ruiz Parra, who was researching a book about Cuba’s independent journalism movement, on February 11 and held him incommunicado. He was released on February […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: CUBA Where news is the exclusive reserve of the state A report on repression of the independent Cuban media As the European Parliament today awarded the Sakharov Prize for human rights to Cuban dissident Osvaldo Paya, Reporters without Borders published a report condemning the complete absence […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has protested against the Cuban authorities’ confiscation of French journalist Catherine David’s files and photographs. David had entered Cuba on a tourist visa to report on dissidents and the human rights situation. RSF also reiterated its complaints about the limitations on press visas granted to foreign journalists, in effect forcing many of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an 18 November 2002 RSF press release: Journalist Bernardo Arévalo Padron has now been in prison for five years Bernardo Arévalo Padron, the longest-detained of the four journalists in prison in Cuba, begins his sixth year in jail today. The Cuban constitution guarantees state control of the media. About 100 […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 28 August 2002, RSF expressed concern that two independent Cuban journalists, Carlos Brizuela Yera and Léster Téllez Castro, may soon be sentenced to five and six years in prison for subversion. “If the two journalists are convicted, it would bring to three the number of journalists imprisoned in Cuba for this reason. […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 21 August 2002 IAPA press release: IAPA concerned about mistreatment of imprisoned journalist Miami (21 August 2002) – IAPA is concerned about the severe reprisals that will likely be endured by Bernardo Arévalo Padron. Padron is a Cuban journalist who has been in jail since 1997. He is the […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 7 August 2002 CPJ press release: CUBA: Independent press under siege New York, August 7, 2002-In a fresh series of actions against Cuba’s independent press corps, Cuban state security agents have harassed, detained, and threatened several independent journalists during the last 10 days. Journalist detained Ángel Pablo Polanco, 60, […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 2 August 2002, RSF called for the immediate and unconditional release of Ángel Pablo Polanco, a journalist for the Servicio Noticuba independent press agency, who was arrested on 30 July. “This arrest demonstrates that the independent press is one of the favorite targets of repression against the opposition,” RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN is deeply concerned by reports of death threats issued to detained journalist Carlos Alberto Domínguez. According to the independent Cuban news agency CubaNet, Domínguez has smuggled a message out of Valle Grande prison stating that he was threatened by a junior official from the Interior Ministry named Ricardo. […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – The WiPC of International PEN welcomes the release on 5 May 2002 of Vladimiro Roca Antúnez. The dissident writer was released 70 days before the completion of his five-year sentence. An honorary member of English PEN, Roca Antúnez, aged 59, was the best-known political prisoner in Cuba. He was arrested on 16 July […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On the occasion of Jimmy Carter’s visit to Cuba, from 12 to 17 May 2002, RSF drew the former United States president’s attention to the press freedom situation in Cuba. In a letter to Carter, the organisation expressed concern over the cases of four currently imprisoned journalists and asked him to intercede in […]

(IAPA/IFEX) – The following is a 7 May 2002 IAPA press release: IAPA condemns governmental harassment of Cuban journalist Miami (7 May 2002) – Today, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) condemned the harassment and attacks against independent journalist Juan Carlos Garcell Pérez. On Friday, the journalist was arrested by the Cuban police on two […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The Cuban government has banned the sale of personal computers to the general public except in cases of special need, when official permission must be sought. The ban, reported by the online newspaper “Wired News” (www.wired.com) on 25 March 2002, was confirmed by several RSF sources in Cuba who said it had been […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: CUBA: CPJ awardee granted asylum in the United States New York, March 29, 2002-Cuban independent journalist and CPJ International Press Freedom awardee Jesús Joel Díaz Hernández has left Cuba for the United States, where he has been granted political asylum. Díaz Hernández arrived in the United […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, RSF protested the state security police’s harassment of members of the Manuel Márquez Sterling Journalists’ Association, which is not recognised by the authorities. The association offers journalism courses to independent journalists. “The government cannot criticise independent journalists for allegedly not being trained […]