Agents from the Cuban communist regime’s State Security detained dissident journalist Yoani Sánchez on Thursday, charging her with dubious “propaganda against the constitutional order” charges before releasing her hours later.
\n\nSánchez is the director of the independent Cuban outlet 14 y Medio and a longtime dissident who, for years, has suffered repeated acts of repression and intimidation by the nation’s communist authorities.
\n\n14 y Medio reported that Sánchez was once again detained by Cuban state security officials in the morning hours of Thursday as she left her home in Havana’s Nuevo Vedado neighborhood to purchase groceries at a nearby market. Minutes after she left, the outlet detailed, Sánchez was able to send a four-word message in Spanish that translates to “The Police kidnapped me.”
\n\nSánchez’s husband, Reinaldo Escobar Casas, confirmed in a brief Facebook post that his wife had been detained by Cuban State Security agents. Testimonies from neighbors of the dissident affirmed to the outlet that a Cuban State Security agent that goes by the name of “Bruno” was seen in the apartment building’s lower floors at the time of her detention.
\n\nThe outlet detailed that Sánchez was released nine hours later on Thursday evening. The journalist told her…
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