Cuba, prison for journalists

 

Raúl Castro's government is one of the "worst jailers of journalists in the world" according to the report for the year 2009 of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which also said it are twenty-two informants who remain imprisoned in Cuba. 


The Committee, based in New York (CPJ for its acronym in English), also remarked that several relatives of journalists have lost their jobs and a new modality of reporters, so-called bloggers are harassed by the political police of the Castro brothers . 
 

The imprisoned journalists, according to the report, survive in subhuman conditions in sealed cells, with very poor food and sanitary conditions. 

 
In an April 2009 report, CPJ had said that Cuba is one of the ten worst countries to practice journalism blogger or citizen journalism, also known as.