Cuba - Independent journalist arrested, pressured to leave Cuba

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A former political prisoner, Bernardo Arévalo is being threatened with another jail term if he does not leave. Bernardo Arévalo Padrón, an independent journalist based in Cienfuegos, 250 km southeast of Havana, said the police of pressured him to leave Cuba when they arrested him on 6 September because of his reporting for the opposition newspaper El Cubano Libre, de Hoy. Arévalo told Reporters Without Borders that the Cienfuegos police threatened him with a four-year jail sentence if he did (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 9 septembre 2014