The Association for Press Freedom (APLP) denounced that last August 13 Cuban independent journalists suffered various types of attacks, which included arrests, threats, telephone harassment, proposals for collaboration with repressive bodies and “visits” to their homes.
This is how this organization detailed it, through a statement published on its website, in which it emphasized the situation of the Guantanamo lawyer and communicator Roberto Jesús Quiñones Haces, of the digital newspaper Cubanet.
Quiñones began this Wednesday serve the penalty of one year of deprivation of liberty that was imposed on him for the alleged crime of resistance and disobedience. Just 24 hours later, Amnesty International declared him a “prisoner of conscience” in a letter addressed to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.
“While this report was being written, we learned that Roberto Quiñones was being taken to prison,” the APLP reported.
The document also made reference to the arbitrary arrest of three other journalists: Henry Constantín and Ricardo Fernández Izaguirre, in Camagüey, and Yoel Suárez in Havana.
To the communicators Luz Escobar and Julio César Álvarez López, from Havana; Javier Valdés, from Pinar del Río, and Manuel Alejandro León Velázquez, from Guantánamo, the authorities prevented them from traveling outside the country.
On the other hand, Luis Cino, Julio Aleaga, Leticia Rodríguez Iglesias, Abrahan Jiménez and Manuel Morejón, all residents of the Cuban capital; They received various types of threats from members of the political police.
The APLP defines itself as a non-profit organization that defends the right to freedom of opinion and press. Although it requested registration in the Registry of Associations of the Ministry of Justice in April 2006, to date it has not received a response.
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