Karen Vasquez, 44, walked out of jail in Cuba on Sunday, part of a deal brokered by the Vatican under which the Biden administration would loosen sanctions on the communist-run island, while Havana ...

US President Biden has removed the communist island from a list of terrorism sponsors in an eleventh-hour outreach to Cuba. Meanwhile, Trump's pick for secretary of state, Marco Rubio, suggested he ...

Cubans celebrated the anticipated release of jailed protesters in a deal struck under US then-president Joe Biden. Now hope ...

The Biden administration said it would remove Cuba from its terrorism blacklist, while Cuba said separately it would release upward of 500 prisoners from its jails.

Cuba on Wednesday began releasing prisoners jailed following anti-government protests in 2021, making good on a deal agreed with the Biden administration this week. Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden o ...

Cruz Garcia said several other prisoners who had been arrested following the 2021 protests and had been held with him had also been released. Maricela Sosa, vice president of Cuba's highest court ...

Hundreds of protesters were detained in July 2021 in a brutal crackdown following one of the largest demonstrations in Cuba since the Communist government took power roughly six decades earlier.

Perez Paseiro had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for participating with thousands of others in the 2021 protests -- the biggest in Cuba since the revolution, which Havana accused ...

Most of those released had been jailed in connection with the July 2021 protests, considered the largest since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. Neither Cuba nor the United States, long-standing ...

Cuba released about 20 prisoners on Wednesday, according to local NGOs. One of those released was 53-year-old Donaida Pérez Paseiro, who had been sentenced to eight years in prison for taking part in ...

The US will remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Joe Biden has said in one of his final official acts as president. In return, Cuba announced it would release 553 prisoners. The ...

Amnesty International estimates that Cuba has jailed 671 people for taking part in protests in July 2021. “We do anticipate that these releases will happen very soon, and we do anticipate that ...