Canel’s administration has once again imprisoned opposition figures released after negotiations with Pope Francis ...

Unión Patriótica de Cuba, list of political prisoners provided to PolitiFact, March 21, 2016. Cuban American National Foundation, "List of the Current Cuban Political Prisoners," March 21, 2016.

Weston, has penned a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking the Trump administration to help free hundreds of ...

More on: Cuba. United States. Diplomacy and International Institutions. Human Rights. Politics and Government. There are more Cuban political prisoners today than on the day President Obama ...

In a recent interview, Abreu described what being a political prisoner in Cuba was like for him from 1961 to 1975, years he spent in five of the most brutal jails, labor camps and hospitals.

Cuba releases political prisoners to re-establish diplomatic relations with U.S. By ABC News. January 12, 2015, 3:28 PM. El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 18, 2014. Serena Marshall/ABC News ...

The first of those conditions was freedom for Cuba's political. Barack Obama has long believed United States Cuba policy should change; he so when he first ran for president in 2008.

Cuban President Raúl Castro flatly denied last week that his regime jails political dissidents — a statement experts said was right out of the Soviet playbook.

IN ANNOUNCING the normalization of relations with Cuba last month, President Obama violated two pledges he had made: to link such a liberalization to "significant steps toward democracy ...

Cuba released 36 political activists from prison in recent days, a top dissident group said, part of a controversial process between the communist island and the U.S. to normalize relations after ...

Cuba's Catholic Church said the government would release 52 political prisoners and let them leave the country, an apparent bid to disarm growing international criticism of Havana's human-rights ...

There are more Cuban political prisoners today than when President Barack Obama announced his deal with the Castro brothers, on December 17. Part of that deal was supposed to see 53 Cuban ...