http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:19:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/cuba-blogger-yoani-sanchezs-travel-to-brazil-denied/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/cuba-blogger-yoani-sanchezs-travel-to-brazil-denied/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:32:58 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=32703 Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been denied permission to leave the island to visit Brazil. Last month, Sanchez formally appealed to the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to enter the country so that she could attend the screening of a documentary about press freedom in Cuba and Honduras in which she features. The blogger tweeted that this was the 19th time she has been denied the right to enter and leave the country. Migration rules that require Cubans to receive government permission to travel have prevented Sánchez from leaving the country since 2004.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/cuba-blogger-yoani-sanchezs-travel-to-brazil-denied/feed/ 1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-journalist-faces-decades-in-prison/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-journalist-faces-decades-in-prison/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:31:39 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=32546 Cuban journalist is facing more than ten years in prison for alleged corruption offences. José Antonio Torres, a correspondent for Granma, the party newspaper, in Santiago de Cuba, was detained on 11 March, 2011 after writing two articles criticising a major government infrastructure project. In the articles, Torres said experts undertaking the rebuilding of a key aqueduct intended to supply water to the city’s inhabitants, had claimed that “ineptitude” and “poor workmanship” had caused parts of the aqueduct wall’s veneer to fall off. The journalist also wrote that the project should have been “better planned.” Torres was initially charged with being an “agent of the CIA” and leaking confidential information abroad.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-journalist-faces-decades-in-prison/feed/ 0 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-dissident-dies-in-jail-after-hunger-strike/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-dissident-dies-in-jail-after-hunger-strike/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:19:05 +0000 Marta Cooper http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=32296 died in a hospital in eastern Cuba following a 56-day hunger strike. Villar launched his strike shortly after his November arrest, after which he was put on trial and sentenced to four years in prison for crimes including disobedience, resistance and crimes against the state. Fellow opposition activists have claimed mistreatment by the Cuban government contributed to Villar’s death.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-dissident-dies-in-jail-after-hunger-strike/feed/ 0 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-yoani-sanchez-brazil-dilma-rousseff/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-yoani-sanchez-brazil-dilma-rousseff/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:24:31 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=31759 Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has appealed to Brazil’s president to help her leave the Caribbean island. A strong critic of the country’s Communist regime, Sánchez has been accused by authorities of conducting a “cyberwar” against the government. Sánchez’s video appeal to Dilma Rousseff follows her invitation to Brazil to attend the screening of a documentary about press freedom in Cuba and Honduras in which she features. The blogger said she did not expect to be able to leave Cuba without ”high-level intervention”. Migration rules that require Cubans to receive government permission to travel have prevented Sánchez from leaving the country since 2004.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/cuba-yoani-sanchez-brazil-dilma-rousseff/feed/ 1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/cuba-journalist-expelled-from-havana-for-the-ninth-time-in-two-years/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/cuba-journalist-expelled-from-havana-for-the-ninth-time-in-two-years/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:05:44 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=27733 awaiting deportation from Cuba‘s capital city. Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias of the Hablemos Press agency is awaiting expulsion from Havana for the ninth time in two years, following a recent crackdown on civic groups and dissident organisations. The journalist was arrested for the fourth time this year on 30 September, and will be deported to his home town of Camagüey. More than 2,500 arrests have been made during the political crackdown, and up to 563 people have been briefly detained or exiled.    ]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/10/cuba-journalist-expelled-from-havana-for-the-ninth-time-in-two-years/feed/ 0 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/09/cuba-correspondents-press-credentials-revoked/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/09/cuba-correspondents-press-credentials-revoked/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:22:17 +0000 Marta Cooper http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=26345 Cuban government this weekend revoked the press credentials of journalist Mauricio Vicent, correspondent for Spanish newspaper El País. Cuban authorities said that Vicent, who has been a reporter on the island for twenty years, had portrayed a “biased and negative image” of Cuba. Since 2007, the Cuban government has prohibited reporting by foreign correspondents from the Chicago Tribune, the BBC and Mexico’s El Universal.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/09/cuba-correspondents-press-credentials-revoked/feed/ 0 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/cuba-reuters-journalist-accused-of-collaborating-with-cia/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/cuba-reuters-journalist-accused-of-collaborating-with-cia/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:51:07 +0000 Laura MacPhee http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=22050 accused a Reuters journalist of collaborating with a US diplomat thought to be a CIA agent. The allegation was made by Cuban state television through a programme “dedicated to uncovering supposed plots against Cuba”. Dissident Raul Capote claims that he witnessed a meeting between then Reuters bureau chief Anthony Boadle and Mark Sullivan, who was a diplomat in the US Interests Section in Havana. He was accused of being a CIA agent in the programme.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/04/cuba-reuters-journalist-accused-of-collaborating-with-cia/feed/ 1 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/cuba-accuses-blogger-of-partaking-in-us-cyber-war/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/cuba-accuses-blogger-of-partaking-in-us-cyber-war/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:26:55 +0000 Laura MacPhee http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=21598 Yoani Sanchez of being part of a “cyber war” launched by America. They allege that the aim of these attacks is to destabilise the communist government in Cuba. Allegations were made against Sanchez in a documentary series accusing the US government of targeting Cuba through “cyber dissident proxies”.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/cuba-accuses-blogger-of-partaking-in-us-cyber-war/feed/ 0 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/remaining-black-spring-journalist-released-in-cuba/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/remaining-black-spring-journalist-released-in-cuba/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:40:25 +0000 Laura MacPhee http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=21062 released from prison on parole. He is the last of the journalists jailed during the 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown to be freed. In April 2003 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Law 88, for commiting acts “aimed at subverting the internal order of the nation”. He was released as part of an agreement brokered by the Catholic church in 2010.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/03/remaining-black-spring-journalist-released-in-cuba/feed/ 0 http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/black-spring-journalist-released-in-cuba/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/black-spring-journalist-released-in-cuba/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:42:49 +0000 Intern http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=20119 released on 12 February. Unlike many of the 52 journalists and dissidents released last July, Maseda, who co-founded the independent news agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro, will not be forced to go into exile.  Six of the 11 prisoners who refused the deal brokered with Spain have now been released and will be allowed to remain in Cuba. There are now just two ‘Black Spring’ journalists who are yet to be freed. Maseda was released against his will, saying that he did not want to go without the others.]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/02/black-spring-journalist-released-in-cuba/feed/ 0