Topic: Elizardo Sanchez
Cuban human rights group wants 69 political prisoners paroled, despite violent crimes of manyCuba's leading domestic human rights group called on the government Thursday to release 69 inmates it says are being held for political reasons, saying they should be eligible ...
The number of political prisoners in Cuba still a murky question depending on who's countingIf Cuba releases 52 prisoners of conscience as promised, it will still hold more than 100 people listed as political prisoners by the island's leading human ...
Cuba is to release a jailed paraplegic political dissident as a result of talks between the Catholic Church and President Raul Castro, the office of the Archbishop of Havana said.The dissident, Ariel Sigler Amaya, 46, has been in prison since 2003 ...
Roman Catholic leaders announced Friday that Cuban authorities have agreed to free an ill political prisoner and transfer six others to jails nearer home, the latest in a rare series of concessions from a government not known for its tolerance of dissent ...
Cuba's government started relocating political prisoners Tuesday closer to their families after mediation by the Roman Catholic church which is seeking their release, dissident and family sources said.The action came after church-government talks aimed at ending politically embarrassing hunger strikes ...
Cuba moves political prisoners, part of deal to improve conditions behind barsCuba has begun transferring some of the country's 200 political prisoners to jails closer to their homes, a human rights official and the wife of one inmate said Tuesday, the ...
<div id="subtitle">Activist: Cuban reporter who supports Ladies in White jailed for 'mistreating' daughter</div><div><p>An independent Cuban journalist with ties to the Ladies in White dissident group has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for allegedly mistreating ...
A Cuban dissident whose death this week following a two-and-a-half-month hunger strike sparked worldwide condemnation, was buried on Thursday by a circle of close friends and family members, his mother told AFP."We just finished burying him, and many of his brothers ...
Cuban President Raul Castro has expressed regret at the death of a political activist due to be buried Thursday, amid reports that police have detained dissidents across the country to prevent protests.Castro said in a statement that he "regrets" Zapata's ...
About 30 opponents of the Cuban government have been detained to stop them from attending the funeral of a leading dissident who died on a hunger strike, a human rights activist said Wednesday."Around 30 dissidents have been detained between Tuesday and ...
