2010-10-04 / Juan Carlos Chavez (Miami Herald)
At least five of the 12 political prisoners eligible for release from Cuban prisons -- but who refuse to leave the island -- say they'll accept freedom if it's offered because of their poor health and age, according to a founder of the Ladies in White group.
Release under the so-called ``extrapenal license'' would hopefully prevent Cuban officials from kicking out of the country the freed prisoners -- as has been done in recent months.
``I suppose there will be some who will accept the license because they are really sick,'' said Laura Pollán on Friday in a telephone interview from Havana.
Cuba agreed to release 52 prisoners from the opposition who are part of the 75 convicted in 2003 during what is known as the Black Spring, a crack down to silence dissidents.
The release is attributed to the mediation of the Cuban Catholic Church and Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, who supported the dialogue in favor of better conditions for conscience prisoners. ...more
2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald
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
2013-04-18 / The Washington Post
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
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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