IPI’s Cuban ‘Justice Denied’ Journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes has been freed from prison in Cuba and has landed in Madrid, his uncle, Miguel Saludes, told IPI by phone from Miami on Wednesday. Rodriguez’s arrival in Spain brings to at least seven the number of journalists who have travelled there after being released in recent days from […]

International Press Institute (IPI) Director David Dadge today praised the expected release of Cuban journalists José Luis Garcia Paneque, Pablo Pancheco Ávila and Lester Luis González Pentón following apparently successful negotiations between President Raúl Castro and Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, Roman Catholic archbishop of Havana, brokered by visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos. However, […]

Today marks the seventh anniversary of the sentencing of Cuban journalist Omar Rodriguez Saludes to 27 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down to any of the journalists charged during Cuba’s notorious 2003 ‘Black Spring’ crackdown against the media. More than 29 journalists were arrested in the roundups that began on 18 March 2003, […]

Seven years after Cuba’s notorious Black Spring clampdown on independent journalism, IPI calls for the immediate release of the 19 journalists jailed in 2003 who still remain in prison, as well as of the six other journalists jailed after 2003. On 18 March 2003, the government of Fidel Castro launched a crackdown on dissent in […]