Madrid/Yoani Sánchez, director of 14ymediowas kidnapped by the political police this Thursday at 9:30, when she was leaving her home, located in Nuevo Vedado, in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality, to shop at the neighborhood market.
The journalist notified her colleagues at this newspaper of her brief departure and announced that she would return soon, but just ten minutes later she managed to send a message in which she warned in just four words of her situation. Since then, there has been no news from Sánchez.
The journalist notified her colleagues at this newspaper of her brief departure and announced that she would return soon, but just ten minutes later she managed to send a message in which she warned in just four words of her situation.
The events occur in a week that accumulates two events of the same type. Last Monday Adelth Bonne Gamboa, collaborator of CubaNetwas violently detained by police officers who handcuffed him and took him in a patrol car. Hours later he was released, but with a fine for his publications on social networks, several confiscated work equipment and new threats of prison.
He Tuesday It was Camila Acosta’s turn, also a collaborator of CubaNetalso detained on public roads and in the morning, by State Security agents who took her to a police station in handcuffs. The reporter explained this Wednesday that, in addition to disabling her mobile phone, the authorities gave her a warning document urging her not to broadcast images of a public official again, since she could face a crime against personal privacy.
Acosta had recorded on October 28 to an agent that prevented him from leaving his house and the filming was disclosed by the media with which he collaborates and countless accounts on social networks, facts similar to those that served to condemn the influencer Anna Bensi to two years of limitation of freedom.
In mid-September, State Security also arrested Henry Constantín, director of Cuba Time. In his case, far from being released, he was taken a few days later to the Kilo 7 prison in Camagüey, where he remains in preventive detention accused of a crime of disobedience.
Several journalists from 14ymedio have been victims of this type of repression since its founding in May 2014.
Several journalists from 14ymedio They have been victims of this type of repression since its founding in May 2014. Reinaldo Escobar has been detained on numerous occasions, most coinciding with important events such as the visit of Barack Obama in 2016 or Pope Francis to the Island in 2015. The journalist has been subject for years to immigration regulations that have prevented him from leaving Cuba.
Luz Escobar has also suffered countless detentions at home, with situations of harassment in front of her minor daughters, which were the trigger for her exile in Spain, where she has lived with asylum since 2022.
Other collaborators of this medium were detained, from José Gabriel Barrenechea in 2024 – sentenced to six years in prison – to Yudiel Hernandezwho was imprisoned for three months for investigating drug trafficking in a Matanzas school in 2025.
