The human rights organization Prisoners Defenders revealed in a report on Tuesday that 198 political prisoners Cuba claimed to free as a gesture of solidarity with the Vatican in January were already eligible for release from prison, either because they completed their sentences or were eligible for house arrest.
The Cuban Communist Party made a grand declaration in January that it would free 553 convicts after a plea from Pope Francis to show clemency to the nation’s political prisoners. The Castro regime claimed that it would free the prisoners “in the spirit of the Ordinary Jubilee of the year 2025 declared by His Holiness” and timed the announcement to coincide with former President Jo
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