Cuba Releases at Least Four Dissidents
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At least four of 75 Cuban dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown last year were released Monday without warning, friends, relatives and local rights activists said. The surprise move raised hopes for additional releases in the coming days.
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Authorities Monday freed an independent journalist who had opposed Cuba's communist government, bringing to seven the number of political prisoners released in a week.
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HAVANA -- The Cuban government freed another jailed opponent yesterday, the sixth dissident released this week in a move widely seen as an attempt to repair relations with the European Union.
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The last four Britons and an  Australian being held at the highly contentious U.S. military  base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are to released, the Pentagon  said Tuesday.
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Burma's military leaders release nearly 4,000 prisoners ruled to have been jailed using "irregular" means.
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year&#39;s crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews
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The last four Britons freed from the  U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are to be reunited with  their families on Wednesday after British police released them  without charge.
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Four men accused of planning to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro have been pardoned by Panama's president.
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Cuba this week freed five of 75 of the independent journalists, opposition party members and rights activists sentenced to long terms in April 2003 after a crackdown on dissent.
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The United States will release the last four Britons and an Australian held as terrorism suspects for about three years without charges at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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Cuba released three imprisoned dissidents on health grounds on Monday in what opposition activists called a bid to end a diplomatic standoff with the European Union.
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Cuba&#39;s communist government freed two more dissidents on Tuesday including its most prominent jailed critic, poet and journalist Raul Rivero, after 18 months behind bars.
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Panama's president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro despite Havana's threat to cut diplomatic ties over such a move.
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Cuba&#39;s most famous political prisoner, the dissident poet RaÃºl Rivero, was yesterday released by Fidel Castro&#39;s regime after serving 18 months of a 20-year sentence.
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Burmaâs military junta released at least 19 political prisoners today, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.
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Cuba's communist government freed two  more dissidents on Tuesday including its most prominent jailed  critic, poet and journalist Raul Rivero, after 20 months behind  bars.
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000 and three or them flew straight to Miami, a haven of anti-Castro groups.