Cuba Gov. to Free 52 Prisoners

HAVANA TIMES, July 7 – The Cuban government will release in the next few weeks all the political prisoners that remain of the 75 opposition members arrested in 2003, a press release by the Archbishopric of Havana reported today.  The decision was notified to Cardinal Jaime Ortega during a meeting with the foreign ministers of Cuba and Spain, Bruno Rodríguez and Miguel Angel Moratinos, respectively.  The released dissidents will be able to leave the country in a process that will be completed in the next three or four months, reported IPS.

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