Profiles

Samboudian Kamara, a senior reporter with Senegal’s state daily Le Soleil, is CPJ’s West and Central Africa correspondent.

Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz, was a correspondent for the independent news agency Patria when he was arrested in 2003. He was given 15 years in jail, of which he served seven under terrible conditions with little medical care and inadequate food before being exiled in Spain.

Laureano Márquez is a humorist, journalist, author, and actor based in Caracas. His columns appear regularly in the Caracas daily Tal Cual and other national publications, and he is also the author of three books of humor, including the 2004 national bestseller, Código Bochinche. Márquez was the recipient of a CPJ International Press Freedom Award…

Pauline Eiferman is a student at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She is from Paris.

Mariama Keita, a freelance journalist, is an intern in CPJ’s Africa program.

San Francisco-based CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Danny O’Brien has worked globally as a journalist and activist covering technology and digital rights. Follow him on Twitter @danny_at_cpj.

Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, 67, began working as an independent journalist in 1995 and helped found independent news agency Grupo de Trabajo Decoro before being given 20 years in prison. Maseda Gutiérrez won CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 2008. He was released in February 2011, and now lives in Havana.

Laura Pollán Toledo is the wife of the newly freed Cuban journalist Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez and a leader of the Ladies in White, a group that advocated for the release of their unjustly imprisoned spouses and loved ones.

A physician by profession, José Luis García Paneque, 43, joined the independent news agency Libertad in 1998 after being fired from his job at a hospital in eastern Las Tunas because of his political views. In April 2003, a Cuban court sentenced him to 24 years in prison after he was convicted of acting “against…