Wednesday 1 October 2008

USA: Two Cuban journalists with UN accreditation denied visas to reenter the United States

Reporters sans frontières - Cuba
"Reporters Without Borders calls on the office of the UN secretary-general to intercede on behalf of husband-and-wife journalists Tomás Granados Jiménez and Ilsa Rodríguez Santana - both UN correspondents for the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina - who were refused visas to reenter the United States after a short holiday in Cuba.

Based in New York for the past three years, the couple were not given any explanation by the US authorities for the refusal, which Reporters Without Borders regards as arbitrary. They were, however, given a form suggesting they are regarded as a threat to the United States."

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