MIAMI, United States. – After announce the release of 553 inmatesthis Wednesday the island’s regime began to release several political prisoners throughout the island, a measure that supposedly responds to an agreement with the Vatican to celebrate the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025.
In your official notethe Cuban Foreign Ministry avoided referring to the negotiations with the United States, although the release measure was announced a few hours after it became known that Washington would remove the Island from the list of States sponsoring terrorism and suspend Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. .
This Wednesday, Maricela Sosa Ravelo, one of the vice presidents of the Supreme People’s Court of Cuba, he stated in the magazine Good morningof the Caribbean Channel, that it was not an amnesty or a pardon, measures that would lead to the total extinction of the sanction and that the beneficiaries would not be subject to any control.
“In this case they are early release benefits,” said the official. He also specified that they include people who, due to their health conditions or age, will receive “extra-penal license.”
In the early hours of this Wednesday, the release of several political prisoners began to emerge in the press and social networks. CubaNet The list of released people will be updated as new information becomes available.
Sisters Lisdani and Lisdiani Rodríguez Isaac, political prisoners of 11J
This Wednesday the authorities of the Guamajal prison, in the province of Villa Clara, notified that the sisters Lisdani and Lisdiani Rodríguez Isaac, political prisoners of the protests of July 11, 2021 in Placetas, would be released, as reported to CubaNet their mother, Bárbara Isaac Rojas.
Lisdani, who has been at home since May of last year on extra-penal leave due to the risk of her pregnancy, will have her extra-penal leave extended until the definitive expiration of her sentence. His sister Lisdiani will be granted conditional release.
Reyna Yacnara Barreto Batista, political prisoner of 11J
She was released this Wednesday after spending almost three years in prison for charges of public disorder and attack derived from her participation in the anti-government protests of July 11, 2021. The release was confirmed by her mother, Reyna Luiza Batista Silva.
Liván Hernández Sosa, political prisoner of 11J
Rowland Castillo Castro, political prisoner of 11J
Mailene Noguera Santiesteban and Jessica Coimbra Noriega, political prisoners of 11J, MONR activists and promoters of Cuba Decide
Dariel Cruz García, political prisoner of 11J
Dariel Cruz Garcia, 21 years old, from La Güinera, political prisoner and protester on 07/11 and 12, arrested 07/16/2021, sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment, is in the La Lima camp. He was beaten in prison and Stabbed by a common prisoner.#FreedomForPoliticalPrisoners pic.twitter.com/P9qXPlE9pt
— Political Prisoners of Cuba (@PresosCuba) January 3, 2023
Karia Beirut, political prisoner of 11J
Mailene Noguera Santiesteban, political prisoner of 11J
Donaida Pérez Paseiro, prisoner of conscience
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