Calixto Martínez Arias, Cuban Independent journalist. (Havana)Calixto Martínez Arias is an independent Cuban journalist, jailed by the Cuban government from September 16, 2012 to April 9, 2013 without formal charge.
He had been reporting about new outbreak of cholera at the east of the island, while the Cuban government officially claimed that after a short summer period in 2012 the illness was already eradicated.
He did discover 5 tons of humanitarian aid sent to Cuba by World Health Organization (WHO), which was left to spoil at Havana’s airport.
At the end of January 2013, Amnesty International named Martínez a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release. He was released on April 9, 2013, having never been formally charged.