Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of three dissident journalists who were arrested within the space of 24 hours at the end of last week in Havana.
Mario Echevarría Driggs, a reporter for the Misceláneas de Cubawebsite, was arrested while covering a demonstration near the National Capitol on 10 October. David Águila Montero, head of the Independent Journalists’ Social Agency (ASPI), was arrested as he left his home the next morning.
William Cacer Díaz, a reporter for the Hablemos Press news centre, was arrested by State Security (the political police) a few hours later as he was going to Hablemos Pressheadquarters.
“These targeted acts of repression are the unfortunate continuation of Cuba’s rejection of the UN Human Rights Council’s recommendations on freedom of expression in Geneva on 20 September,” Reporters Without Borders said.
“This attitude is all the more incomprehensible in the light of Cuban civil society’s growing debate about information, a debate in which the official media have now joined. You cannot hope to debate and reform everything while continuing to resort to censorship, brutality and arbitrary measures. The detained journalists and netizens must be freed at once.”
Reporters Without Borders added: “As current holder of the rotating presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Cuba has all the more reason for honouring its obligations on civil liberties and human rights, as President Raúl Castro himself promised. Ratification of the UN covenants on civil and political rights can wait no longer.”
Two other news providers are currently detained in Cuba: the writer and blogger Angel Santiesteban-Prats, who has been held since 28 February, and José Antonio Torres, a journalist with the Communist Party daily Granma, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison in July 2011 on unexplained charges of “spying.”
The three latest arrests follow an increase in repressive measures in recent weeks.
Reporters Without Borders condemns the “acto de repudio” (act of public vilification) organized outside dissident journalist Juan Carlos González Leiva’s home on 12 October, a week after the police summoned the blogger and activist Isbel Díaz Torres after a debate on the future of the Labour Code that was organized by the Communist Party and Workers Central.OCTOBER 18, DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THE VICTIMS OF KLEPTOCRATIC REGIMES
EU practices double standards in civil rights. It’s freakish for EU to interfere in the civil rights of foreigners, but condone the abuse of my civil rights, a citizen of EU! EU should get its own house in order and quit lecturing others.
It’s been now almost three years since the freakish Greek government stole my life, my computer, and my files. Nobody cares, nobody gives a damn! I have done absolutely nothing, and I am being persecuted by the Greek government without any reason. This is against all rules of civil society and treaties that Greece has signed.
On October 18, 2010, a gang of six brutal policemen of the violent Greek Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) broke into my home in Athens and stole my computer, software, files, documents, and personal data.
The policechimps locked me in jail for a night, they humiliated me with handcuffs, fingerprints, mug shots, and lies, leaked false information to the media parrots, and the fucking Greek government initiated sham ex-officio court proceedings for a stack of stupid fictitious freakish charges!
There was neither pillow nor toilet facility in my jail cell. I had to urinate in a bottle! I, a 68 years old with high blood pressure, was not allowed to keep my hypertension pills with me. There was neither toilet paper nor soap in the whole CCU jail.
GREECE, A FAILED STATE, THE BLACK SHEEP OF FOURTH REICH, THE PARIAH OF OCCIDENT, ENEMY OF BLOGOSPHERE
Ex-officio law suit, autepageltos αυτεπαγγελτος, the most dreadful word in justice, means the state sues somebody without involvement of the accuser. This terrible scheme has been used by the freakish Greek government to persecute me. Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, sued me, and she wouldn’t show up in court, because the state took over her position!
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