Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz (born in 1947) is a Cuban journalist. Before his imprisonment, he was an independent journalist with the Patria news agency. Adolfo Fernández Sainz also contributed to foreign publications, particularly in Sweden . He was correspondent of the Russian human rights news agency Prima since 2001.
11-696: Sainz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adolfo Fernández Sainz (born 1947), Cuban journalist Alberto Sainz (born 1937), Argentine association football player Bernard Sainz (born 1943), French unlicensed sports doctor, convicted for administering doping Borja Sainz (born 2001), Spanish association football player Carlos Sainz (born 1962), Spanish rally driver Carlos Sainz Jr. (born 1994), Spanish racing driver, son of Carlos Sainz Casimiro Sainz (1853–1898), Spanish painter Enrique Sáinz (1917–1999), Spanish field hockey player Faustino Sainz Muñoz (born 1937), Spanish prelate of
22-524: A prisoner of conscience . The Freedom for Fernandez International Committee has demanded Adolfo Fernández Sainz to be released. Adolfo Fernández Sainz was the prisoner of the month of the English PEN in March 2006. Fernández Sainz was released from prison on 19 August 2010. The next day, he traveled to Spain to live there. His release from prison was based on direct negotiation between deputies of
33-475: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Adolfo Fern%C3%A1ndez Sainz Adolfo Fernández Sainz was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison during the Black Spring crackdown on dissidents in 2003. In prison, he has protested through hunger strikes. A 2003 hunger strike demanded decent food and medicine for seriously ill prisoners. Amnesty International has recognized him as
44-706: The US invasion of Iraq , and lasted two days. It received international condemnation from several countries, with critical statements coming from George W. Bush's administration, the European Union , the United Nations and various human rights groups . Responding to the crackdown, the European Union imposed sanctions on Cuba in 2003, which were then lifted in January 2008. The European Union declared at
55-641: The 75 Cubans as " prisoners of conscience ". The Cuban government stated at the time: "the 75 individuals arrested, tried and sentenced in March/April 2003... are demonstrably not independent thinkers, writers or human rights activists, but persons directly in the pay of the US government. [...] [T]hose who were arrested and tried were charged not with criticizing the [Cuban] government, but for receiving American government funds and collaborating with U.S. diplomats". The crackdown on dissidents began on 18 March, during
66-669: The Catholic Church Pablo Sáinz Villegas (born 1977), Spanish classical guitarist Pedro Sainz Rodríguez (1897–1986), Spanish writer, philologist, publisher and politician Regino Sainz de la Maza (1896–1981), Spanish classical guitarist Renato Sáinz (1899–1982), Bolivian association football player Severiano Sainz y Bencamo (1871–1937), the second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matanzas (1915–1937) Steven Sainz (born 1994), US politician, Republican member of
77-682: The Catholic Church and the Spanish government. Black Spring (Cuba) Black Spring was the 2003 crackdown by the Cuban Government on Cuban dissidents . The government imprisoned 75 dissidents, including 29 journalists on the basis that they were acting as agents of the United States by accepting funds from the US government and George W. Bush's administration at the time . Amnesty International described
88-707: The Georgia House of Representatives Tina Sainz (born 1945), Spanish actress See also [ edit ] Sanz (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Sainz . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sainz&oldid=1244502299 " Categories : Surnames Spanish-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
99-727: The Roman Catholic Church Gustavo Sainz (born 1940), Mexican writer Inés Sainz (born 1978), Mexican journalist Inés Sáinz Esteban , Spanish beauty pageant Joana Sainz García (1989–2019), Spanish singer, dancer, and songwriter who was killed onstage by a faulty pyrotechnic José Sáinz Nothnagel (1907–1984), Spanish right-wing activist and politician Karina Sainz Borgo (born 1982), Venezuelan journalist and writer Lolo Sainz (born 1940), Spanish former basketball player and coach Lucía Sainz (born 1984), Spanish tennis and padel player Luis Sáinz Hinojosa (born 1936), Bolivian prelate of
110-556: The time that the arrests "constituted a breach of the most elementary human rights, especially as regards freedom of expression and political association". Some criticized the dissidents, such as former CIA agent Philip Agee , who described them as "central to current US government efforts to overthrow the Cuban government and destroy the work of the Revolution ." US sociologist and scholar James Petras noted that "No country in
121-500: The world tolerates or labels domestic citizens paid by, and working for a foreign power to act for its imperial interests, as 'dissidents'". All of the dissidents were eventually released, most of whom were exiled to Spain starting in 2010. Manuel Vázquez Portal received the International Press Freedom Award in 2003. Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez received the same prize in 2008, while locked up in
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