Journalist Yoani Sanchez Says Released After 'Arbitrary ...
Sánchez said she will detail the abuse faced by low-profile prisoners after her release, while at least two other women were also detained, activists said.
- On Friday, award-winning Cuban journalist Yoani Sanchez was released after a brief detention in Havana, following her seizure while leaving her home in the Nuevo Vedado neighborhood.
- Cuban authorities frequently target independent reporters under a 2023 law authorizing only state-run media outlets in Cuba; Sanchez has reported enduring frequent police harassment for her journalism.
- At least two other prominent Cuban women were arrested Thursday, including The Ladies in White movement leader Berta Soler and member Maria Cristina Labrada, seized "in the middle of the street" as confirmed by Soler's husband Angel Moya.
- Amnesty International demanded Cuban authorities "immediately and unconditionally release all those they are holding," while a Spain-based NGO requested "immediate information" on Soler and Labrada's whereabouts Thursday.
- The Ladies in White movement emerged in 2003 following the "imprisonment" of 75 Cuban dissidents during the Black Spring, earning recognition from the European Parliament with the Sakharov Prize in 2005.
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The director of 14ymedio denounced her arrest and announced that she will tell the stories of the people she found in custody. The United States condemned the arrest and recalled other cases of Cuban journalists.
Cuban journalist and activist Yoani Sánchez has been released for the last few hours after being arrested on Thursday by security forces in Havana, as confirmed by the dissident herself through a message spread over networks. "I just got home, thanks to everyone for ... Continue reading "Release Cuban opposition journalist Yoani Sánchez after her arrest in Havana"
Berta Soler, the leader of the women's movement in white - made up of mothers and wives of opponents arrested under Fidel Castro - was still detained on Thursday night. She was regularly arrested from several hours to a few days.
Journalist Yoani Sanchez says released after 'arbitrary ...
State Security agents arrested Cuban independent journalist Yoani Sánchez, founder and director of the digital media 14ymedio, on Thursday morning as she left her home in the neighborhood of Nuevo Vedado, in the municipality of Plaza de la Revolución, to shop in the neighborhood market. According to 14ymedio himself, Sánchez told his colleagues that she would be absent briefly and return soon. Just about ten minutes later, around 9:30 a.m., she …
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