Sentence Upheld In The Case Of Journalist Expelled From Radio Holguin

Sentence Upheld In The Case Of Journalist Expelled From Radio Holguin /
14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 13 October 2016 — Journalist Jose Ramirez Pantoja
appeared for a second time before the Municipal Court of Holguin on
Wednesday. The reporter, expelled from his job in the provincial radio
station, reported on his blog that "everything transpired normally in
accordance with the law" and that the trial had "upheld the sentence."

Both parties attended the hearing: the administration of Radio Holguin
and the attorney Rafael Jorge Noya Lafite, representing Ramirex Pantoja.
During the hearing "new evidence" was presented and the journalist had
the chance to state before the court "issues raised at the first
hearing," according to his brief blog post.

Pantoja was fired from his job on July 11 and sentenced to five years of
suspension from his job and his profession for posting on his personal
blog some controversial words of the assistant director of the newspaper
Granma, Karina Brown, about the current economic crisis in Cuba.

Last September the President of the National Ethics Commission of the
Cuban Journalists Union, Luis Sexto Sanchez, traveled to Holguin and met
with Pantoja. A few days later, the Commission upheld the sentence
against the reporter at both the provincial and national level.

Before the incident with Brown, Ramirez Pantoja was recognized with the
Félix Elmuza Distinction, the Journalists Union highest award.

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