Index on Censorship » Dilma Rousseff http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Dilma Rousseff http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Cuba: blogger Yoani Sánchez’s travel to Brazil denied 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 [...]

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]]> 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.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/02/cuba-blogger-yoani-sanchezs-travel-to-brazil-denied/feed/ 1 Cuba: Blogger appeals to Brazilian president for help to leave island 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 Dissident 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 [...]

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]]> 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.

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