The SIP requires Cuba to stop its severe repression and control Internet

In its 72nd General Assembly in Mexico

MEXICO CITY The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today called on the Cuban government to stop exercising strict control of the Internet and digital platforms, in a year in which he said that there has been a "twist" in the sector with the emergence of more independent media.

"Demand that the Government of Cuba that apart from the list of the most repressive countries in the world in terms of internet and digital platforms , " solved this body, which concludes today in Mexico City its 72nd General Assembly.

He also asked the government to stop "resist the wave of changes in communications and technology" and to "respect the professional work and the exercise of freedom of expression both independent journalism and workers Press their own media ,"he shored.

IAPA reiterated that want both the US and Cuba, in the process of restoration of relations, "prescribe guarantees to freedom of expression and freedom of the press".

The company said this year the government "has shown a growing concern for independent journalism and the emergence of uncontrolled means" from the Communist Party.

This leads to grow "government aggression" and positively noted that new technologies have given more voice to opposing voices and Orthodox, although there are "major obstacles" on the network.

To this fact is added that in the official press have also arisen dissenting voices calling for a change in the official information policy.

"The most critical of the Government 's independent press has followed, however, in the center of retaliation and harassment ," continued the letter, which was approved Monday by the Assembly.

He stressed before the visit last March the US president, Barack Obama, and "more than 300 arbitrary arrests" arrests.

He also spoke of events as the increased control the independent press after Hurricane Matthew around the island.

"In short, this year the Cuban independent press has been marked by two opposing phenomena: censorship and growth , " said IAPA.

And so he has lived "months of creativity and diversification of its themes, new formal proposals and a qualitative leap" in their informational purposes.

"Meanwhile, the official press has made a couple effort resume issues and prospects closer to citizens, but fails to distancehimself from the iron partisan boundaries , " concluded the SIP.

From 13 to 17 October was held in Mexico City 72nd General Assembly of the IAPA, a non-profit dedicated to the defense and promotion of freedom of the press and expression in the Americas, which has more than 1,300 associated publications and its headquarters are in Miami (USA).

(EFE)