Reply #7: EXIT visa denied [View All]

[Bacchus39]

would someone please explain to our Castrophiles, what the difference between an exit visa and a passport is????

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=26894

06 .05 - Cuba: Blogger Yoani Sanchez denied visa to receive prize in Spain

The Cuban authorities have refused to grant an exit visa to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, author of the blog “Generacion Y”, who was due to receive the Ortega y Gasset Prize in Spain, awarded to her by the daily El Pais in the “Internet journalism” category, on 4 April 2008. The award ceremony is being held in Madrid tomorrow.

“Raul Castro’s policy of openness has run into its first boundary here. We are astonished by this decision after it was heralded that there would be an easing of movement for Cuban citizens and liberalising of access to different means of communication,” the worldwide press freedom organisation said.

This prize was awarded to Yoani Sanchez “for the advances her work brought to the Web in Cuba in terms of freedom of expression, her acerbic tone, the accuracy of her information and the dynamic way she launched herself on the blogosphere”. Founded by El Pais in 1984, the Ortega y Gasset prize is the Spanish equivalent of the prestigious American Pulitzer prize, awarded for defending freedoms and for journalistic independence