By Committee to Protect Journalists
HAVANA TIMES – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on Cuban authorities to allow the media to report freely on July 11 demonstrations, following threats made against independent journalist Jose Luis Tan Estrada to deter him from covering the anniversary of the massive 2021 protests.
Tan Estrada said on Facebook that he was in a park in the central Cuban city of Camagüey on July 5 when a police officer briefly detained him and warned him that he risked imprisonment if he went to public places on July 11 or published anything to commemorate the demonstrations, the biggest seen in Cuba in decades.
“We are concerned that Cuban authorities’ detention