Six more Cuban prisoners to leave for Spain - Church

[Judi Lynn]

Six more Cuban prisoners to leave for Spain - Church
3 hours 58 mins ago

Six more political prisoners will leave Cuba in coming days as part of an agreement between the communist government and the Roman Catholic Church to free 52 detained dissidents, church authorities said on Friday.

The Archdiocese of Havana said the six would be transferred directly from prison to a plane where they would be united with their families and flown to Spain, following in the footsteps of 20 other prisoners released last month.

Cuban President Raul Castro agreed in June after meeting with Catholic Cardinal Jaime Ortega to free 52 dissidents who were among 75 imprisoned in 2003 in a crackdown against government opponents. The others had already been paroled.

The international community has applauded the prisoner releases, which followed months of intense criticism of the government after the death of a dissident hunger striker and the harassment of prisoners' female relatives in Havana by government supporters.

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