Cuba: Imprisoned journalists continue reporting
Posted by Alisa Zykova on August 20, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Imprisoned Cuban journalists continue to report from jail, whether it is through the weekly telephone calls they are allowed or by passing on notes during prison visits.
Journalists José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández and Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, who are currently jailed in Havana's Güanajay prison, managed to provide information about the exploitation of prisoners who are used as free labor at a shoe factory in Havana.
Articles making use of the information were published on CubaNet and PayoLibre, Miami-based online news outlets, even if they were not written by Hernández and Gutiérrez.
Both journalists were convicted in March 2003, as part of a "massive crackdown against the opposition and independent press", reported Maria Salazar on the Commitee to Protect Journalists Blog.
Source: European Journalism Centre, Commitee to Protect Journalists
Journalists José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández and Miguel Galván Gutiérrez, who are currently jailed in Havana's Güanajay prison, managed to provide information about the exploitation of prisoners who are used as free labor at a shoe factory in Havana.
Articles making use of the information were published on CubaNet and PayoLibre, Miami-based online news outlets, even if they were not written by Hernández and Gutiérrez.
Both journalists were convicted in March 2003, as part of a "massive crackdown against the opposition and independent press", reported Maria Salazar on the Commitee to Protect Journalists Blog.
Source: European Journalism Centre, Commitee to Protect Journalists
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