Journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra Perez Beaten

Journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra Perez Beaten / Luis Felipe Rojas
Posted on July 13, 2014

Independent journalist Roberto de Jesus Guerra Perez was beaten on
Wednesday, 11 June by a regime partisan. Guerra Perez uploaded a photo
to his Facebook account where he appears with contusions on his face.

Guerra Perez is director of the Information Center and Prensa Hablemos
(Let's Talk Press), and in days past had warned about the threats that
he was receiving daily. Perez made public the detentions Monday morning
of journalist Mario Echevarria Driggs and journalism student Yeander
Farres who receives training at Let's Talk Press.

The independent reporter and director of Palenque Vision, Ramon Olivares
Abello, was beaten on 31 May by a "State Security collaborator named
Fidelito," his wife told Martinoticias.com from the city of Guantanamo.

The director of Let's Talk Press, Guerra Perez, added a brief message
that the known dissident Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello also had been
beaten on leaving her house on Wednesday.

The telephones cut off by Cuba's only phone company (the state-run
ETECSA), short but continuing detentions, beatings and death threats
seem to be the messages that the regime sent to non-conformist Cubans at
the same time that the Vice-President of the government, Miguel
Diaz-Canel Bermudez, insists that the official press should be "more
transparent."

Translated by mlk.

11 June 2014

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