MIAMI, United States. — The Cuban political police summoned this Wednesday the journalist from CubaNet Anay Remón García (Ana León), who must appear tomorrow at two in the afternoon at the Zanja station, municipality of Centro Habana.
The summons, issued by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), indicates that the journalist must go to the unit to “be interviewed.” It also warns that she could be fined up to 500 pesos in national currency if she does not show up at the station on the date and time indicated.
Anay Remón García is one of the journalists from CubaNet harassed by the Cuban political police. In addition to having been summoned and questioned on several occasions for her work in the independent press, the young woman has also been prohibited from leaving the country since 2018.
On March 24, the reporter denounced the harassment of the political police towards her mother, in what she considered an attempt to dissuade her from carrying out her journalistic work.
“Several have been the emissaries of the political police who have promised me persecution and even jail if I continue writing for the independent press. At some point the threats were extended to my mother, even to my partner, ”Remón García denounced in a publication posted on his profile. Facebook.
Other journalists from CubaNet They have also received pressure from State Security because of their work, among them the filmmakers Augusto César San Martín and Rudy Cabrera and the reporter Camila Acosta.
In recent years, the lawyer and independent journalist Roberto de Jesus Quinones Hacessentenced to one year in prison in 2019 for covering the trial against an evangelist couple in Guantánamo, and Orelvys Cabrerawho spent more than thirty days in prison for reporting the anti-government protests on July 11 in the province of Matanzas.
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