They arrested Spain’s ABC newspaper correspondent after reporting the protests

The correspondent of ABC newspaper from Spain, Camila Acosta, was arrested on Monday in Cuba after having covered the historic demonstrations against the regime which governs this country.

According to this newspaper, the journalist was intercepted in Havana when he left his house do a personal procedure.

The news was confirmed to independent media “Cubanet” by writer Angel Santiesteban.

Late Sunday the correspondent suffered WhatsApp and Internet blocking, like many colleagues and citizens, a strategy of the regime led by Miguel Díaz-Canel so that it does not transcend what is happening on the island, especially abroad.

ABC explains on its website that it is not the first time that Camila Acosta is being held by the Cuban regime for her critical information with the government. She also suffered social rejection, which forced her to change her address several times when their rental contracts were canceled by the owners of the houses, victims of pressure from the authorities, as she herself told the newspaper last February.

The correspondent neither can he leave the island to be “regulated”, a form of punishment against those who make uncomfortable statements abroad about the regime.

Cuban authorities they repressed the strong protests that recurred in different cities of Cuba due to the pandemic and the worst economic crisis in the country in the last 30 years. They deployed the formidable squad of “black berets”, the elite group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), and there was dozens of violent arrests of independent dissidents, artists and journalists.

International condemnationIn addition to this, you will need to know more about it.

Organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and Amnesty International have denounced “the lack of guarantees for freedom of expression”.

Another reaction to the protests was that of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, who acknowledged “the legitimate claim of Cuban society for medicines, food and fundamental freedoms ”.

“We condemn the Cuban dictatorial regime for calling on civilians to repress and confront those who exercise their right to demonstrate,” he said.

For its part, the organization Reporters Without Borders included this year in its gallery of “predators of press freedom” to Diaz Canel.

The report indicates that independent journalists in Cuba they are watched by agents who try to limit their freedom of movement, arrest them and erase the information they have. Thus, in the latest index on press freedom, Cuba ranks 171st out of a total of 180 countries.

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