In Spain, police violence against press sparks concern
August 28, 2011 4:48 PM ET
Spanish press associations have expressed concern about recent episodes of police violence against journalists covering demonstrations against Pope Benedict's four-day visit to Madrid and protests staged as part of the anti-corruption 15-M movement....
Ending dark era, Cuba frees last jailed journalist
April 8, 2011 3:31 PM ET
New York, April 8, 2011--The Cuban government on Thursday released the last journalist remaining in its prisons, ending a dark, eight-year-long era in which the island nation was one of the world's worst jailers of the press, at one...
Cuba's Maseda Gutiérrez balks at conditions for freedom
February 11, 2011 5:11 PM ET
New York, February 11, 2011--The Catholic Church in Havana announced today that jailed Cuban journalist Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, a CPJ International Press Freedom Awardee, at left, would be released after nearly eight years behind bars. But news reports, including...
Cuban deadline passes for dissident releases: What next?
November 11, 2010 1:20 PM ET
Sunday marked the end of the four-month deadline Cuban President Raúl Castro had agreed to with representatives of the Cuban Catholic Church and the Spanish government to free 52 prisoners of conscience who remained in jail since the March...
Cuba frees 17th journalist jailed in Black Spring
October 12, 2010 2:46 PM ET
New York, October 12, 2010--Cuban journalist Alfredo Felipe Fuentes, left, was freed from prison on Friday and exiled to Spain as part of a July agreement between the Havana government and the Catholic Church. Seventeen journalists jailed in the...
Cuban journalist released, exiled; 16 now free
September 27, 2010 2:51 PM ET
New York, September 27, 2010--Imprisoned Cuban journalist Miguel Galván Gutierrez was released from jail and flown to Madrid on Saturday as part of a July agreement between the Havana government and the Catholic Church. Sixteen journalists jailed in the 2003...
15th Cuban journalist freed, exiled to Spain
September 8, 2010 3:06 PM ET
New York, September 8, 2010--Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, a Cuban journalist imprisoned since March 2003, was freed and flown to Madrid today, bringing to 15 the number of editors and reporters released following July talks between the government of President...
2 Cuban reporters freed, arrive in Madrid; 13 now released
August 19, 2010 3:45 PM ET
New York, August 19, 2010--Formerly imprisoned Cuban journalists Fabio Prieto Llorente and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta arrived in Spain today, bringing to 13 the number of imprisoned reporters who were freed this year as part of an agreement between...