Cuban journalist Yoani Sánchez, director of the independent digital newspaper 14Ymedio, was released after a nine-hour detention this Thursday in Havanashe reported on social networks.
“I just arrived home, thank you all for the solidarity and dissemination of the arbitrary detention that I suffered this morning. That support was what managed to undo the locks and open the bars,” Sánchez wrote.
In the short post, He said that next Friday he will give “more details of what happened.” but, above all, he will tell what he saw in those dungeons.
“As a journalist I will narrate the pain and total lack of protection in which those who do not have public visibility live, sometimes they do not even have a mobile phone to report what happens to them,” he said.
Sánchez was detained by the political police when she left her home this morning, located in the Nuevo Vedado neighborhood, to make purchases in the neighborhood market, and managed to send a message to her colleagues in which she warned about her situation, according to a report from 14Ymedio.
Her husband, also a journalist for that newspaper, Reinaldo Escobar, said that Sánchez was released nine hours after her arrest by State Security.
Sánchez is a renowned independent journalist who won the Ortega y Gasset Prize in 2008.
14Ymedio remembered that Several members of his team have been previously detained, including Reinaldo Escobar, in most cases coinciding with important events on the island such as the visit of Barack Obama in 2016 or Pope Francis in 2015.
He also stressed that Sánchez’s arrest has been added to those of other independent media reporters such as Camila Acosta and Adelth Bonne Gamboa, registered this week after being intercepted on public roads by the police, detained for several hours and released with fines and warnings.
