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Cuba detains award-winning journalist Yoani Sanchez

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Cuba detains award-winning journalist Yoani Sanchez

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Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sanchez, founder and director of independent news outlet 14ymedio, in Havana on Thursday morning amid a government crackdown on independent journalists.
It was the third detention of an independent journalist in the Cuban capital this week, according to her husband Reinaldo Escobar.

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Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sanchez, the award-winning founder and director of the independent news outlet 14ymedio, in Havana on Thursday morning amid the latest government crackdown on independent journalists. It was the third detention of an independent journalist in the Cuban capital this week.

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Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sanchez, the award-winning founder and director of the independent news outlet 14ymedio, in Havana on Thursday morning amid the latest government crackdown on independent journalists.

It was the third detention of an independent journalist in the Cuban capital this week.

“Yoani Sanchez has been detained by State Security today in Havana,” journalist Reinaldo Escobar, Sanchez’s husband, who is currently in Madrid, announced on social media.

Open Questions

What specific charges, if any, were brought against Yoani Sanchez?
Where is Sanchez currently being held?
Who are the other two journalists detained this week and what happened to them?
Is this part of a broader, coordinated crackdown on independent media in Cuba?

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