AREQUIPA, Peru – Some 88 political prisoners have been released in Cuba as of 2:00 PM (local time) on January 18. This, after the Castro regime announced this week the release of 553 inmates within the framework of a relaxation of US sanctions and, supposedly, another agreement with the Vatican to celebrate the Ordinary Jubilee of 2025.
The figure was revealed in the permanent count of the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) and, according to the platform, around 64% of those released had between one and three years left to complete their sentence.
For its part, the non-governmental organization Prisoners Defenders recorded in its most recent report that at the end of November 2024 in Cuba There were 1,148 political prisoners. To date, releases represent just over 5% of that total.
This Saturday morning, the renowned Cuban opposition figure Félix Navarro Rodríguez was released, who also suffered political imprisonment during the Black Spring of 2003 and is a promoter of Cuba Decide.
Navarro was arrested along with his daughter and other activists after the popular protests of July 11, 2021 (11J). Both were sentenced to nine and eight years in prison.
“Concern persists about the situation of her daughter, Saily Navarro Álvarez, who continues to be unjustly detained in prison,” says a statement from the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH).
Also this Saturday, the release of political prisoner Brenda Díaz and Protestant pastor Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, both in the dungeons of the regime after 9/11, emerged.
According to the latest OCDH record, 92% of those released from prison are participants in the aforementioned protests in 2021. The list of those released so far is as follows:
Rolando Yusef Pérez Morera
Noel Martínez Tápanez
Miner Chaviano Mastache
Francisco Rafael Villa Tamari
Adrian Rodriguez Morera
Joel Diaz Hernandez
Leylandis Puentes Vargas
Yoslen Dominguez Victores
Denis Hernandez Ramirez
Roberto Jesus Marin Fernandez
Robert Michel Marin Fernandez
Adrián Echegoyen Espiñeira
Rosa Jany Millo Espinosa
Felix Navarro Rodriguez
Frandy González León
Brenda Diaz Garcia
Henry Osmar Sánchez Aparicio
Roberto Sosa Cabrera
Yoel Consuegra Ávila
Yoennis Domínguez de la Rosa
Yeriel Cruz Pérez
Yuniesky Jackson Menu
Marcos Antonio Pintueles Marrero
Omar Hernandez Calzadilla
Yuniel Jorge Fleitas
Daisy Rodriguez Alfonso
Rolando Fernandez Osorio
Lázaro Rodríguez Ávila
Liván Mediaceja Heredia
Frank Ernesto Trujillo Hervis
Alexander Paredes Collado
Emy Yoslan Román Rodríguez
Jose Manuel Arias Campos
Maykel Fleites Rivalta
Yismel Alfonso Oliva
Gilberto Castillo Castillo
Dariel Rosa Pérez
Manuel Diaz Rodriguez
Yusnaira González Pérez
Jorge Luis Liriano Álvarez
Johander Pérez Gómez
Humberto Elías Monrabal Camps
Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo
Abdiel Cedeño Martínez
Yoandry Reinier Sayú Silva
Armando Lázaro Merlan Pérez
Alien Molina Castell
Jorge Luis Lugones Lara
Gloria María López Valle
Heriberto Tellez Reynosa
Daniel Antonio Díaz Gálvez
Juvier Jimenez Gomez
Yunior Rodríguez Rivero
Julián Manuel Mazola Beltrán
Uziel David Abreu Martínez
Iris Belkis Oduardo Rodríguez
Carlos Manuel Pupo Rodríguez
José Daniel Ferrer García
Jorge Luis Salazar Brioso
Lisdiany Rodríguez Isaac
Luis Robles Elizásteguis
Orlando Pineda Martínez
Marlon Brando Diaz Oliva
Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez
Juan Yanier Antomarchi Núñez
Randy Arteaga Rivera
Frank Daniel Roig Sotolongo
Yandier García Labrada
Eduin Rodríguez Fonseca
Andro Ledesma Prieto
Liliana Oropesa Ferrer
Endris Fuentes Zamora
Javier González Fernández
Arturo Valentín Rivero
Rowland Jesus Castillo Castro
Dariel Cruz García
Donaida Pérez Paseiro
Mailene Noguera Santiesteban
Yessica Coimbra Noriega
Reyna Yacnara Barreto Batista
Livan Hernandez Sosa
Katia Beirut Rodríguez
José Miguel Gómez Mondeja
Jorge Gabriel Arruebarruena León
Lisdany Rodríguez Isaac
Magdiel Rodríguez García
Rogelio Lázaro Domínguez Pérez
César Adrián Delgado Correa
After announce the release of 553 inmatesthis Wednesday the Cuban regime began to release several political prisoners.
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.
CubaNet The list of released people will be updated as new information becomes available.
This newspaper has built a visualization where the names, faces and stories of these freed political prisoners are compiled. The list, which uses family reports, press releases and publications on social networks as sources, will be updated as we confirm new cases. It will continue to update in real time.
