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2010-05-24 / BBC News Service

Cuban prisoners 'win concessions' after Church talks

Cuba has relaxed the prison regime for political detainees after talks with Roman Catholic leaders, a prominent dissident has said.

Prisoners held far from their homes will be moved closer and sick inmates will be admitted to hospital, said Guillermo Farinas, who is on hunger strike over the issue.

He began his fast after a prisoner died on hunger strike in Febuary.

Havana did not comment on the news, but a Church source confirmed it.

The BBC's Michael Voss, in Havana, says the issue of political prisoners was raised at a four-hour meeting on Wednesday between the communist state's President, Raul Castro, and Cardinal Jaime Ortega and the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Dionisio Garcia.

Human rights groups estimate there are 200 opponents of the government serving prison sentences with almost 30 of them believed to be in a poor state of health. ...more

2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy

2013-04-18 / The Washington Post

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more

2013-04-16 / The Washington Post

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election

Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more

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