Cuba - Tenth freed Cuban reporter lands in Madrid
"I am extremely happy to regain my freedom, but I also feel sad for leaving my country," said Alfredo Pulido López, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2003.
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José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández will move to Chile, where the government offered him political asylum.
View ArticleCuba - Twelfth writer released into exile
Poet and activist Régis Iglesias Ramírez was freed on 17 August 2010 and arrived in Madrid the next day.
View ArticleCuba - Two more reporters freed, arrive in Madrid
Fabio Prieto Llorente and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta were both imprisoned in March 2003 during the massive crackdown on political dissent and independent journalism.
View ArticleCuba - Another journalist freed, flown to Spain
Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz said he was happy to have regained his freedom, but wished he's been given the chance to stay in Cuba.
View ArticleCuba - Released journalists interviewed seven years after "Black Spring"
Several recently released journalists appear in an RSF video interview.
View ArticleCuba - Another "Black Spring" journalist released
Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona was freed and flown to Madrid, bringing to 15 the number of editors and reporters released following talks between the government and the Catholic Church.
View ArticleCuba - Two more writers released, exiled to Spain
Librarian José Miguel Martínez Hernández arrived in Madrid on 24 September, while journalist Miguel Galván Gutiérrez arrived the following day.
View ArticleCuba - Cuba frees another journalist jailed in 2003 crackdown
Journalist Alfredo Felipe Fuentes was freed from prison and exiled to Spain as part of an agreement between the Havana government and the Catholic Church.
View ArticleInternational - Cuban dissident wins European Parliament's Sakharov Prize
The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov human rights prize to Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez, the Cuban dissident whose four-month hunger strike ultimately led to the release of numerous...
View ArticleCuba - Government breaks promise by keeping three "Black Spring" journalists...
The journalists still held are refusing to go into exile, which is the Castro regime's condition for their release.
View ArticleCuba - Like Nobel ceremony, Sakharov Prize ceremony has empty chair
Guillermo "El Coco" Fariñas Hernández has not been allowed to leave Cuba.
View ArticleCuba - Journalist arrested twice in less than 24 hours
Guillermo Fariñas was held for seven hours at a police station in Santa Clara province, accused of "public scandal" following a street protest staged in solidarity with a family that has been evicted...
View ArticleCuba - Jailed journalists begin hunger strikes
Pedro Argüelles Morán and Albert Santiago du Bouchet began their action nearly a year after the death in prison of dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo following a hunger strike.
View ArticleCuba - Spain must press Cuba to keep promises to free journalists, says CPJ
Three months have passed since the November 2010 deadline for Cuban authorities to free the remaining dissidents.
View ArticleCuba - Journalist released on parole, allowed to stay in country
Press reports indicate that Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez had balked at the government's offer to be released on parole, asking instead for a pardon.
View ArticleCuba - "Black Spring" journalist released against his wishes
A Cuban journalist who had refused to leave prison until all political prisoners were freed was released against his will last week as the Cuban government continues to free opposition activists and...
View ArticleCuba - Two journalists still held after "Black Spring" journalist Iván...
Iván Hernández is the second of the "Black Spring" journalists to be allowed to stay in the country following their release.
View ArticleCuba - Human Rights Watch urges government to stop arbitrary arrests of...
The government arbitrarily detained at least 50 people leading up to the one-year anniversary of Orlando Zapata Tamayo's death, according to dissidents who spoke to the organisation.
View ArticleCuba - Last of Black Spring journalists freed; one reporter still jailed
Pedro Argüelles Morán, 62, is the third journalist of the Black Spring detainees to be permitted to remain in Cuba after rejecting exile to Spain as a condition for his release.
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