Journalists Arrested in Cuba for Reporting on Hurricane Irma Preparations – IOTW Report

Journalists Arrested in Cuba for Reporting on Hurricane Irma Preparations

Panampost: Raúl Castro’s dictatorship in Cuba arrested independent journalists who were trying to report on Hurricane Irma this week.

When they were arrested, Maykel Gonzalez Vivero and Carlos Alejandro Rodríguez had been trying to report on the arrival of Hurricane Irma, interviewing people on the island about their plans and preparation for the storm and what their experiences had been with previous hurricanes.

Authorities transferred them to the municipal police station of Sagua la Grande, where they were “stripped and physically searched by experts and an instructor.”    more here

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