Cuba detains award-winning journalist Yoani Sanchez

South China Morning Post Thursday 05 November 2026, 19:19 UTC By Tribune News Service 1 min read

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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.

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