Camila ACOSTA RODRÍGUEZ

Journalist and author Camila Acosta Rodríguez continued to be subjected to harassment by police and security forces in 2025. On 19 April 2025, she was prevented by police agents from carrying out her work as a journalist covering a story. On 20 and 22 May 2025, around Cuba’s Independence Day celebrations, uniformed and plain clothes officials surveilled her house and prevented her leaving. Similar incidents took place on 5 August 2025 - the 31st anniversary of the Maleconazo mass protests against economic conditions in Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union -  and 21 November 2025. On 21 April 2024, journalist and author Camila Acosta Rodríguez was briefly detained by police officials in Matanzas, Cuba (see Case List 2025). 

Camila Acosta Rodríguez, born in 1993, is a Cuban journalist who works in Havana as a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ABC. She is the author of the book Del templo al temple, silencios y escándalos de la masonería cubana (2022).