Cuba to Release Last 2 of 75 Dissidents

HAVANA TIMES, March 23 — The Cuban government will conclude the process of releasing the 75 dissidents tried in 2003 with the release of Félix Navarro and José Ferrer in the next few hours, the Havana Archbishopric announced.

Their release, which has been accompanied by that of other political prisoners, responds to the agreement of the authorities with the Catholic Church and Spain, reported IPS.

Meanwhile the Ladies in White, wives and relatives of Cuban political prisoners, will continue with their protests in favor of the release of other inmates, after the release of the 75 dissidents tried in 2003 concludes, Bertar Soler, the group’s spokeswoman, affirmed.

According to Elizardo Sánchez, president of the illegal Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation, on the island there are still 60 persons in prison for political reasons.

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