US: Cuba Has Released Some of 53 'Political' Prisoners

Cuba has freed some of 53 people the United States regards as political prisoners as agreed under last month's U.S.-Cuban rapprochement, the U.S. government said on Tuesday in its first acknowledgement that some detainees have been released. The lack of information about the fate of the detainees, who President Barack Obama's administration has refused to identify by name, has provided ammunition for congressional critics of Obama's restoration of ties to Havana. "They...

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