Cuba frees six more political prisoners, dissidents say
Cuba has freed six more detainees, dissidents said on Thursday, as Havana begins to release 53 people the United States considers political prisoners as part of an agreement aimed at ending decades of hostility between the two nations.
Including three detainees released on Wednesday, there have been nine detainees liberated over the past 24 hours, political opposition groups on the communist-led island said. All but one of the nine are members of the dissident Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU).
