Cuban Reporter Yuri Valle Roca Released After Five Days of Detention

Cuban Reporter Yuri Valle Roca Released After Five Days of Detention /
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Posted on March 25, 2016

14ymedio, 24 March 2016 — The freelance reporter Yuri Valle Roca was
released Thursday after being detained for five days in a police
station. The activist was arrested last Sunday and Freedom House, an
organization in support of human rights, today asked the government of
Cuba for his immediate release.

Police authorities informed Valle Roca that he was being charged with
the crime of "attack," but the journalist complained that it was he who
was beaten in the face and other body areas during the arrest. In the
police station of Santiago de las Vegas, where he was held, he remained
in isolation, without contact with other detainees, he says.

Last Sunday, hours before arrival to the island by United States
President Barack Obama, some 60 dissidents were arrested in Havana after
the traditional weekly march of the Ladies in White. Most were released
hours later, but Valle Roca remained missing until Wednesday when he was
about to contact his family by phone.

Freedom House said in its statement Thursday that "despite President
(Raul) Castro saying that it respects human rights, the Cuban government
continues its shameless repression of freedom of expression, press
freedom and the right to peaceful protest."

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