Reporters Without Borders (RSF) today issued its annual report on the state of press freedom around the world.
On Cuba, RSF provided no surprises:
Fidel Castro’s stepping-aside in favour of his brother Raúl did not reduce pressure on the independent media and 24 journalists remain in prison. One of them, Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez, staged several hunger strikes over seven months, calling for free Internet access for all Cubans. He was awarded the Reporters Without Borders Cyber-freedom Prize.Will defence minister and army commander Raúl Castro allow more basic freedoms after taking over from his ailing brother as acting president on 31 July 2006. So far the regime has continued hounding dissidents, especially independent journalists. Cuba is still the world’s second biggest prison for journalists. Two were freed in 2006 but this was quickly made up for by the jailing of two others, making a total of 24 being held.
Read the whole report on Cuba, including details on how the dictatorship restricts access to the Internet, here.
For more on Cuba's independent press, especially the more than two dozen journalists in Castro's gulag, click on the links to the left, under March 18 Project.
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