Madrid Spain.- The United States government condemned this Friday the repression of independent journalists in Cuba.
Via Twitter the US Embassy in Cuba referred to the recent travel ban on six reporters from The touch who would participate in the international Media Party conference in Argentina.
After this imposition of the regime, “nine journalists (from said medium) abandoned the publication alleging pressure from State Security,” the consular headquarters said.
“We condemn the Cuban regime’s harassment of the independent press,” the entity said.
After Cuba prevented six journalists from @eltoquecom traveling to an international conference, nine journalists left the publication alleging pressure from State Security. We condemn the Cuban regime’s harassment of the independent press. #PressFreedom
— Embassy of the United States in Cuba (@USEmbCuba) September 2, 2022
This August 31 The touch published a statement explaining that after this impediment to leaving the country, “the blackmail and threats against the group escalated.”
In recent months several journalists from other independent publications have also been harassed by the Cuban regime; including Luz Escobar, of 14ymedioIsmario Rodriguez, of neighborhood journalism and Nelson Julio Álvarez Mairata, of CubaNet; who tendered his resignation in early August.
already in last mayDuring the week of World Press Freedom Day, the United States Embassy in Havana had denounced “the imprisonment and harassment of journalists in Cuba.”
On that occasion, he referred to the case of independent journalist Jorge Bello Domínguez, a protester of the July 11 in Güira de Melena, Artemisa, and sentenced last April to 15 years in prison for the crime of contempt.
In June 2022, in the context of the IX Summit of the Americas, the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, declared that those who report the Cuban reality, from the Island, “are exposed to systematic abuse.
The headline further stated: “When individual journalists are attacked, when they are persecuted, when they are imprisoned, when they are attacked in any other way, the chilling effects go far beyond the immediate victims.”
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