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Cuba: Journalist Stops Eating & Drinking to Demand Unrestricted Internet Access

Via Reporters sans Frontières.

Reporters Without Borders voiced support today [2 February 2006] for Guillermo Fariñas, the editor of the Cubanacán Press independent news agency, who has consumed no water or food since midday on 31 January and has told President Fidel Castro in an open letter he will pursue his hunger strike “to the death” if he and his fellow journalists are not allowed the Internet access they need for their work.

Fariñas told Reporters Without Borders : “I want all Cuban citizens to have the right to an Internet connection, but also for the independent press to be able to report on the government’s activities, and if I must be a martyr for Internet access, so be it.” In his open letter, he points out that the overwhelming majority of Cubans have no Internet access.

posted by Fergie @ 2/06/2006 09:03:00 AM