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Cuban Authorities imprison one journalist, arrest another and summon a third

5/1/2010

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The crackdown on independent journalists is intensifying, with three cases of journalists being jailed, arrested or summoned in the past few days. The journalist who has been jailed is Dania Virgen García of Primavera Digital and CubaNet, who was given a 20-month sentence on 23 April. Her case brings the number of journalists imprisoned in Cuba to 25.

Arrested at her home in the Havana suburb of San Miguel del Padrón on 22 April, García was tried and convicted in less than 48 hours and was taken to the women’s prison known as the “Manto Negro” (Black Veil) because of its bad reputation. The regime’s haste to “pass justice” appears to have been due to the municipal elections held on 25 April

The charges on which García, 41, was convicted have yet to be confirmed, but she supported and participated in the marches staged by the Ladies in White, a group formed by the mothers, wives and sisters of political prisoners whose activities have been suppressed by the authorities in recent days.

Independent journalist Yosvani Anzardo Hernández was arrested at his home in San Germán, in the eastern province of Holguín, on the morning of 24 April. His family does not know why. The editor of the newspaper Candonga, Anzardo was detained for two weeks in September 2009, when police confiscated the electronic equipment he needed to produce the newspaper.

Magaly Norvis Otero Suárez, an independent journalist who reports for the Hablemos Press news centre and Miami-based Radio Martí, has been given a summons to report to the National Revolutionary Police in Havana for “a conversation” on 29 April. A staunch supporter of the Ladies in White, Norvis also keeps a blog in which she writes about arbitrary arrests and human rights violations.

Finally, police used force to arrest Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, another Hablemos Press reporter, on 23 April as he was covering an event in the Havana suburb of Marianao to commemorate imprisoned dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo’s death. Martínez has been charged with “insulting behaviour.”

“The international community cannot continue to remain silent in the face of the suffering of Cuba’s dissidents and the lack of freedoms imposed by a regime whose hints of a possible opening stopped short at the threshold of human rights,” Reporters Without Borders said.

Independent journalist Guillermo Fariñas Hernández is meanwhile continuing a hunger strike to press for the release of the prisoners of conscience who are in poorest health. Reporters Without Borders has urged him to call off the protest but Fariñas says he is ready to die.

With a total of 25 journalists currently detained, including Reporters Without Borders correspondent Ricardo González Alfonso, Cuba ranks behind only Iran and China as one of the world’s biggest prisons for the media.

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Castros Ban Internet Access to Citizen Journalists

5/9/2009

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About the only place to get real facts about Cuba is on a number of blogs (I have a page with links to the most important ones here).

And now the Castros are clamping down on this, by banning Cuban citizens from accessing the web in tourist hotels to update their blogs. This is as anti-freedom as, say, the Canadian Government banning the Star or Globe and one more sign that there is no prospect of human rights in Cuba as long as the Fidel gang are in control. It's not believed, but may be so, that the timing of this restriction next to the Press Freedom Day was not an accident.

Here's Yoani's post

I have gone a couple of days without connecting to the Internet, because a new complication has appeared in the road of alternative bloggers.  Several hotels in the country demand, in order to connect to the web, that you prove a life in a place outside the Cuban archipelago.  The desk clerks tell me—even though they are just as native as I am—that that blue card will not allow me to dive into the vast World Wide Web.  “It’s a decision that comes from above,” a woman says to me, as if a decision of this type could be taken at a level other than the offices of the government. I see it will be hard to change myself into a foreigner overnight.  So the only thing left is to protest against such a ban and to make public the existence of a new apartheid.  I will have to go back in the guise of a tourist, although this time I will have to learn a language as complicated as Hungarian to fool those who sell the access cards.  Maybe I can prowl around the hotels, ready to ask the foreigners to buy—for me—this forbidden entrance key, this safe conduct I need “to not be Cuban.”Link to Yoani's Blog

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