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Journalists detained and harassed, internet disrupted amid Cuban protests
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Riot police patrol the streets after a demonstration against the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel, in Arroyo Naranjo Municipality, Havana, Cuba, 12 July 2021, YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images Cuban authorities should immediately and unconditionally release all detained journalists, stop disrupting internet access in the country, and allow the press to cover protests freely.
This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 14 July 2021.
Cuban authorities should immediately and unconditionally release all detained journalists, stop disrupting internet access in the country, and allow the press to cover protests freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.Since July 11, protests have erupted in several Cuban cities, with demonstrators calling for the end of the country’s communist government and protesting an economic
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MADRID - Periodistas cubanos que dieron cobertura
Normando Hernández González, director de la ICLEP, dijo en entrevista con la
Voz de América que al menos 47 periodistas han sido detenidos, y catalogó a los arrestos como síntoma de cómo el gobierno cubano está tratando de criminalizar” a la profesión periodística.
Las protestas resultaron en decenas de arrestos, una muerte confirmada y
tres días de interrupción del inestable servicio de internet de Cuba, en un intento desesperado del Gobierno de Miguel Díaz-Canel por evitar nuevas manifestaciones y evitar la difusión de imágenes de lo que pasa dentro de la isla.