Independent Journalist Convicted for Reporting on Denge Epidemic
Cuban Journalist Guillermo Espinosa Rodríguez was convicted by a court in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on the uniquely Cuban charge of “social dangerousness.” He was sentenced to two years house arrest.
Espinosa Rodríguez had been covering an outbreak of dengue fever in Santiago de Cuba since July. Authorities suppressed news of the outbreak which was not reported in the official press. He had been detained for a few hours at least three times during the last three months, and warned that he would go to jail if he did not stop writing “lies,” his cousin Diosmel Rodríguez told CPJ.
Espinosa Rodríguez was fired by the government from his job as a nurse three months ago because of his writing, CPJ sources said.
Committee to Protect Journalists
mayor of london ken livingstone
Mr. Mayor, is this the kind of thing you were talking about when you heaped praise on Cuba's government not so long ago?
Your model for "freedom of the press," as it were?
no?
perhaps you should go back and rethink your position?
Espinosa Rodríguez had been covering an outbreak of dengue fever in Santiago de Cuba since July. Authorities suppressed news of the outbreak which was not reported in the official press. He had been detained for a few hours at least three times during the last three months, and warned that he would go to jail if he did not stop writing “lies,” his cousin Diosmel Rodríguez told CPJ.
Espinosa Rodríguez was fired by the government from his job as a nurse three months ago because of his writing, CPJ sources said.
Committee to Protect Journalists
mayor of london ken livingstone
Mr. Mayor, is this the kind of thing you were talking about when you heaped praise on Cuba's government not so long ago?
Your model for "freedom of the press," as it were?
no?
perhaps you should go back and rethink your position?
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