International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Yoani Sánchez and prominent opposition journalist and attorney Yaremis Flores were among at least 27 Cuban dissidents arrested last week during what observers have called a new “wave of repression” on the Caribbean island. Flores was among a group of independent lawyers detained by authorities last Wednesday. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the release of Cuban blogger and IPI World Press Freedom Yoani Sánchez, who had been detained by Cuban authorities on Thursday evening while attempting to cover the trial of a Spanish activist accused of causing the death of a well-known dissident in a car crash. Sánchez was released […]

One step forward, two big steps backward in the fight against criminal defamation in Latin America: while a judge in Paraguay acquitted a journalist on defamation charges on Friday, reporters in the Dominican Republic and Cuba continued to face prison terms for libel. In Asunción, ABC Color columnist Alberto Candia had been the target of […]

A Cuban journalist who had been covering a sensitive cholera outbreak has been charged with defaming Fidel and Raúl Castro, the editor of one of Cuba’s leading independent news agencies said yesterday. In a message transmitted via the Háblalo sin miedo voice platform, Roberto Guerra Pérez of Hablemos Press said that Cuban authorities have charged […]