Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez

Héctor Fernando Maseda Gutiérrez (born 18 January 1943) is a Cuban nuclear engineer and a journalist.

The award is given for journalists who show courage in defending press freedom in the face of attacks, threats or imprisonment.

[3][4][5] Finally, I believe this testimony could be assumed as an insistent voice for all those who suffer the horror that characterizes despotic and oligarchic government models.

This work will travel, like a galloping knight armed with his sword, morally strengthened or blessed by the truth, to all the latitudes of the planet it can visit and it will act as a public and challenging message to those who control people and countries in any part of the world.He was a nuclear engineer before being sacked at the end of the 1980s for ideological errors.

[9][10] In prison, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez managed to write his memoirs, Enterrados Vivos (English: Buried Alive), which was smuggled out one page at time.