Cuba frees 7 political prisoners into exile
Cuba freed seven political prisoners on Monday and sent them and their families to exile in Spain the start of a promised mass liberation of dissidents that once seemed unthinkable.
Cuba freed seven political prisoners on Monday and sent them and their families to exile in Spain the start of a promised mass liberation of dissidents that once seemed unthinkable.
Cuba has released seven political prisoners and sent them into exile in Spain, in the first wave of freeing a group of 52 such inmates.
Cuba has released seven political prisoners and sent them into exile in Spain, in the first wave of freeing a group of 52 such inmates.
Cuba’s soccer fans celebrate in Havana July 11 2010 after Spain won the 2010 World Cup final soccer match against the Netherlands.
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s 83-year-old revolutionary leader, will appear on La Mesa Redonda (Round Table) talk show late on Monday evening.
HAVANA (AP) Fidel Castro is back. The aging revolutionary leader will appear Monday Cuba’s key public affairs television program, according to a front-page headline in the Communist-party newsletter Granma. It may be the most prominent appearance by the former president since he fell ill in 2006.
Cuba gathered political prisoners and their families in Havana on Sunday as it prepared to release the first of 52 jailed dissidents to Spain in a deal with the Catholic Church, dissidents and family members said on Sunday.
HAVANA (AFP) Communist Cuba Saturday began releasing a group of ailing political prisoners as part of a landmark church-brokered deal to free 52 dissidents, relatives of three freed inmates told AFP. If all 52 activists are freed, it would be the largest prisoner release since President Raul Castro took Cuba’s reins permanently from his brother Fidel Castro in 2008. After a politically …
HAVANA (AFP) Communist Cuba Saturday began releasing a group of ailing political prisoners as part of a landmark church-brokered deal to free 52 dissidents, relatives of three freed inmates told AFP. If all 52 activists are freed, it would be the largest prisoner release since President Raul Castro took Cuba’s reins permanently from his brother Fidel Castro in 2008. After a politically …
Cuba has begun releasing a group of political prisoners, journalists and activists, as part of a Vatican-brokered deal to free 52 of them.