Staff of Cuban press freedom group ICLEP lose internet service, fear targeted disruption 3 minute read A Cuban blogger checks her channel on a cellphone at Havana’s Malecon, Cuba, 27 February 2018, YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images “It can be no accident that nearly 50 independent Cuban journalists lost internet service on the same day,” said CPJ. “Cuban authorities must ensure that [ICLEP] employees have full access to the internet and can carry out their work without interference.” This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 4 March 2021. Cuban authorities must ensure that journalists and staff at the Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP) are able to access the internet, and should allow its journalists to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.Since February 24, dozens of employees of ICLEP, a Cuban press freedom organization that also publishes seven free newspapers in the country, have been unable to connect to the internet on their mobile phones, according to press reports and Normando Hernández, ICLEP’s general manager, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.