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Hablemos Press journalist awaits 10th deportation to home town

Published on 15 May 2012Read

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Exile and death

Dissident journalist kills himself in Spain, a year after being forced into exile

Published on 6 April 2012Read

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Hablemos Press journalist to be expelled from Havana yet again in new crackdown

Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a reporter for the independent news centre Hablemos Press arrested on 30 September and held at the Alternative Penal (...)

Published on 6 October 2011 Read

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Authorities step up harassment of independent news centre

The Cuban authorities are waging a campaign to intimidate Hablemos Press, a Havana-based independent news centre, presumably because of its (...)

Published on 1 July 2011 Read

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No more journalists left in Cuban prisons after dissidents flown to Spain

There are no longer any journalists in prison in Cuba. The last one was Albert Santiago Du Bouchet, who arrived in Spain today along with 36 (...)

Published on 8 April 2011 Read

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Does last Black Spring journalist’s release mark turning point for free expression?

The last journalist detained since the March 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown, Pedro Argüelles Morán, was released from a prison in Ciego de Ávila, his (...)

Published on 7 March 2011 Read

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Two journalists still held after “Black Spring” journalist Iván Hernández’s release

Iván Hernández Carrillo, a correspondent for the small independent news agency Pátria, returned to his family home in Matanzas province on 19 (...)

Published on 21 February 2011 Read

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Jailed journalists on hunger strike

Pedro Argüelles Morán, one of four journalists in jailed Cuba, began a hunger strike 1 February to protest against the authorities’ efforts to force (...)

Published on 4 February 2011 Read

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Press freedom prize winner held twice in 24 hours

Cuban cyber-journalist and dissident Guillermo “El Coco” Fariñas Hernández has been arrested for the second time in 24 hours and though it is thought (...)

Published on 28 January 2011 Read