LA GUINERA, Cuba, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Cuba on Wednesday began releasing prisoners jailed following anti-government protests in 2021, making good on a deal with the Catholic Church that prompted the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ferrer is one of the most recognised names among Cuban dissidents and pro-democracy activists. The 54-year-old leader of Cuba's Patriotic Union (Unpacu), an opposition group in the country, was jailed ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Cuba faced sharp criticism from rights groups, the United States and the European Union following the imprisonment of hundreds of protesters after riots on July 11, 2021, the largest since Castro ...

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 ...

Cuba said it will release 553 political prisoners ... dozens of Cubans who were arrested in conjunction with the July 2021 protests, as well as bring relief to their family members,” the Biden ...

Cuba began releasing some prisoners, including those arrested during the 2021 protests, as part of talks with the Vatican. The move comes a day after President Joe Biden's administration announced ...