Cuba - Hablemos Press journalist awaits 10th deportation to home town

Reporters without borders

Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a reporter for the independent news agency Hablemos Press, was arrested on 10 May and is being held in a police detention centre in Havana awaiting deportation in three days' time to his home town of Camagüey for the 10th time in two years. His sister-in-law, Niurka Caridad Ortega, visited the journalist yesterday and told Hablemos Press she had “seen him and taken him some clean laundry, although he said he had stopped eating since Thursday and was spitting (...)

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