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Cuba Detains, Questions Dozens of Journalists Over Protest Coverage July 20, 2021 FILE - Riot police walk the streets after a demonstration against the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Arroyo Naranjo Municipality, Havana, July 12, 2021. Share share Print Cuban journalists covering the most serious protests against the communist government in decades have been arrested, subjected to police surveillance and intimidated by the authorities. At least 47 journalists have been arrested, according to the Cuban Institute for the Freedom of Expression and the Press (ICLEP), an organization...

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.o...