Journalist Yoani Sánchez released after ‘arbitrary arrest’ by Cuban state security

Miami Herald · Nora Gámez Torres · 2026-11-05 17:20 UTC

Cuba’s Yoani Sanchez is detained in Havana amid crackdown on independent journalists.

Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sánchez, 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. She was released several hours later.

It was the third detention of an independent journalist in the Cuban capital this week.

“Yoani Sánchez has been detained by State Security today in Havana,” journalist Reinaldo Escobar, Sánchez’s husband, who is currently in Madrid, announced on Facebook.

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