The quote of the day about Cuba — and other bottom-dwelijng regimes — comes from the Reporters Without Borders report summarizing how journalists around the world were killed, jailed, censored, etc. in 2009 for just doing their jobs:
"At least 167 journalists are in prison around the world at the end of 2009. One would need to go back to the 1990s to find so many of them in jail. Although the UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression keeps reiterating that imprisonment is a disproportionate punishment for press offences, many governments keep laws that allow them to jail journalists, and continue to abuse these laws. The sentences given to journalists in Cuba,China, Sri Lanka and Iran are as harsh as those imposed for terrorism or violent crime."
To learn more about Cuban journalists in jail, go here.
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