US Calls for Release of Jailed Cuban Journalist

A former Cuban reporter who worked for the communist government's official newspaper was featured Tuesday as the first of six journalists in the U.S. government's weeklong press freedom campaign leading up to the May 3 World Press Freedom Day. Jose Antonio Torres was a journalist for Cuba's state newspaper Granma. He was arrested in February 2011 after Granma published his report on the mismanagement of a public works project in Santiago de Cuba, and subsequently was sentenced...

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