Leading Cuban Dissident Writer Freed
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Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed dissident writer Raul Rivero, the best known of a dozen political prisoners released over the past few days in a move widely seen as intended to court favor with the European Union.
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At least 10 Afghans, including a nomad leader who fought with the Taliban, have been released from a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday.
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A dissident who led the 1988 student protests in Burma is freed, as part of a release of 4,000 prisoners.
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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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Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Panama after Panama&#39;s President Mireya Moscoso pardoned four Cubans convicted over a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Ex-Philippine President Joseph Estrada is freed from detention, after receiving a pardon from his successor.
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Cuba frees poet Raul Rivero, the latest political prisoner to be freed in recent days after last year's  crackdown.
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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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YANGON, Myanmar -- One of Myanmar&#39;s best known and longest-imprisoned political dissidents has been freed as part of a general release of almost 4,000 prisoners by the country&#39;s ruling junta, a family member confirmed Saturday.
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Cuba severs ties with Panama after it pardons four Cuban exiles accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba severed diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday in anger at its outgoing leader  pardoning four Cuban exiles imprisoned for plotting to kill  President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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Panama'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.
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A silence has settled over Cuban political life that ordinary Cubans find at once disconcerting and a big relief.
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One of four dissidents freed by Havana has spoken out about the deplorable conditions in Cuban prisons.
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Cuba freed six jailed dissidents on  health grounds on Monday and was preparing to release a dozen  more in an apparent bid to clean up its human rights image.
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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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One of five Cuban dissidents who have been released from prison this week has been told he should consider leaving the country. The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that writer Raul