08 / 07 / 2010
Cuba: political prisoners’ release reflects regime calculation. Democracy Digest.
Cuba’s communist authorities will release 52 political prisoners, Catholic officials in Havana have disclosed, the largest release of imprisoned dissidents in decades.
As previewed in yesterday’s Democracy Digest, the release of the pro-democracy activists arrested in the 2003 Black Spring was brokered by Cardinal Jaime Ortega, with assistance from visiting Spanish diplomats.
The announcement, a rare victory [...]