After 204 days in prison and two hunger strikes, Cuban journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias was released yesterday following months of lobbying by the International Press Institute (IPI) and other media and human rights organisations. “Victory,” tweeted Roberto J. Guerra, director of the independent news agency Hablemos Press, where Martínez had worked prior to his […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today reiterated its demand that Cuban authorities immediately release the independent journalist Calixto Martínez Arias, who was imprisoned last September for allegedly insulting former president Fidel Castro and his brother, current president Raúl Castro, under the country’s criminal-defamation laws. Last week, Martínez ended his second hunger strike in less than […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned for the well-being of jailed Cuban journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez, who has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 10 to protest prison conditions. In a video statement released yesterday, Hablemos Press, the Havana-based independent news agency for which Martínez was a correspondent, said that the journalist […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed grave concern at the sentencing of Cuban reporter José Antonio Torres to 14 years in prison for espionage. A journalist for the state-run newspaper Granma, Torres was detained on March 11, 2011, shortly after publishing a pair of articles containing criticism of a government aqueduct project near the […]