Along with the director of ‘La Hora de Cuba’, one of the media’s collaborators, journalist Alejandra García, was arrested.
MIAMI, United States. – State Security agents arrested this Monday in Havana journalist Henry Constantín, director of the independent media Cuba Timeand the collaborator Alejandra García, according to the media itself reported.
Until the moment of the complaint (12:13 pm this Monday), Cuba Time He stated that he did not know the whereabouts of both and demanded immediate information from the authorities, in addition to their “release without charge.”
According to the media, at 12:40 pm García contacted the editorial team to alert that State Security agents “were outside the house where he was located, in Havana.” Minutes later, she wrote again to report that both she and Constantín “were being detained.” Since that last contact, Cuba Time He indicated that he did not know “the whereabouts of both or the legal causes of the detention,” which—according to the complaint—“confirms a new episode of arbitrary arrest and temporary disappearance.”
The arrest occurred in “a context of systematic harassment” against Constantín, who, so far in 2026, has already been arrested three times. Cuba Time recalled that the journalist He was arrested on January 14 in Havana and that he remained “more than 40 hours in an unknown whereabouts, without a court order or official information to family or colleagues.” He added that, days later, he was intercepted by police forces in Camagüey, in an act of intimidation that he linked “directly to his journalistic work.”
Besides, Cuba Time He maintained that García’s arrest “also confirms the extension of the repression against independent journalists and communicators, in a context of growing criminalization of the exercise of freedom of expression in Cuba.” The media stated that it holds “the Cuban State responsible for the physical and psychological integrity” of Constantín and García, and demanded “immediate information about their whereabouts and their release without charge.”
Henry Constantin, 41, is one of the most recognized independent journalists in the country. Throughout his career he has been the subject of arreststhreats and harassment for their informative work and their defense of press freedom and human rights. From Cuba Time For years, he has documented cases of censorship, repression and abuses in Camagüey and other provinces.
