HAVANA – The correspondent of the newspaper Abc To Cuba, Camila Acosta, was arrested yesterday and will be tried for “crimes against the security of the state”. As reported by Abc the journalist was intercepted in Havana by several police officers as she left her home to do some personal business with her father.
Subsequently, the officers went to his home where they carried out a search and confiscated all his work material, including his computer. Hours before the arrest, Acosta had given news of the protests in Cuba, especially those that took place in the capital. In the following hours, the internet and WhatsApp were blocked on the island.
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“The very frequent cuts are not due to technical reasons, but are a tool to silence the voice of dissidents and prevent the population from accessing foreign media to know what is happening in Cuba”, he highlighted Abc, explaining that it is not the first time that the journalist has been detained by local authorities. The arrest of Camila Acosta was condemned by the leader of the Spanish People’s Party (PP), Pablo Casado, who on Twitter asked for his immediate release.
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