Overview
- On Thursday Sánchez was seized by plainclothes agents as she left her home in Nuevo Vedado, 14ymedio reported and local outlets corroborated.
- Sánchez posted on X that she was released after several hours and had returned home, thanking supporters for public solidarity.
- She and 14ymedio say the arrest was carried out by the political police and described the tactic as part of repeated harassment of independent reporters and collaborators.
- The same day Damas de Blanco leader Berta Soler and another member were also detained briefly, a pattern that sources say often ends with fines or short-term releases.
- Press groups such as Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrest and rights groups point to the 2023 communications law and VPN dependence as structural limits that sharpen the chilling effect on Cuba’s independent media.