Papa Leo XIV asks freedom for jailed journalists (video)

Pope Leo XIV expressed on Monday the solidarity of the Catholic Church with imprisoned journalists «for seeking and informing of the truth,” and requested his liberation.

In Your first audienceIn the Vatican, the newly elected Supreme Pontiff met with representatives of the media who worked during the conclave. «I thank you for the work they have done and done at this time, that for the Church it is essentially a time of grace,» he told them.

The suffering of these jailed journalists, the Pope stressed, question the conscience of nations and the international community, «calling us all to safeguard the precious good of freedom of expression and press.»

The Pope reminded journalists that communication is not only transmission of information, but a creation of a culture, human and digital environments in which both dialogue and confrontation house both, and called them to purify the communication of aggressions, prejudices, fanaticism and hate.

«Unarmed and disarming communication allows us to share a different vision of the world and act consistent with our human dignity,» said Leo XIV.

In early May, the International Organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) criticized the restrictions to Freedom of the press in the world and pointed to Cuba among the nations that violate this right.

«Arrests, arbitrary arrests, prison threats, persecution and harassment, illegal housing and confiscation raids and destruction of teams: all this awaits journalists who do not follow the line of the Communist Party of Cuba,» said RSF in their report.

Several independent communicators have been imprisoned On the island for the simple fact of carrying out its work to inform the reality of the current Cuba, including José Gabriel Barrenechea, Jorge Bello Domínguez, Yadiel Hernández and the young activist Mayelín Rodríguez Prado.