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Cuba - Tenth freed Cuban reporter lands in Madrid

"I am extremely happy to regain my freedom, but I also feel sad for leaving my country," said Alfredo Pulido López, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2003.

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Cuba - Another Cuban journalist freed, flown to Madrid

José Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernández will move to Chile, where the government offered him political asylum.

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Cuba - Twelfth writer released into exile

Poet and activist Régis Iglesias Ramírez was freed on 17 August 2010 and arrived in Madrid the next day.

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Cuba - Two more reporters freed, arrive in Madrid

Fabio Prieto Llorente and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta were both imprisoned in March 2003 during the massive crackdown on political dissent and independent journalism.

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Cuba - Another journalist freed, flown to Spain

Juan Adolfo Fernández Saínz said he was happy to have regained his freedom, but wished he's been given the chance to stay in Cuba.

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Cuba - Released journalists interviewed seven years after "Black Spring"

Several recently released journalists appear in an RSF video interview.

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Cuba - Another "Black Spring" journalist released

Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona was freed and flown to Madrid, bringing to 15 the number of editors and reporters released following talks between the government and the Catholic Church.

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Cuba - Two more writers released, exiled to Spain

Librarian José Miguel Martínez Hernández arrived in Madrid on 24 September, while journalist Miguel Galván Gutiérrez arrived the following day.

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Cuba - Cuba frees another journalist jailed in 2003 crackdown

Journalist Alfredo Felipe Fuentes was freed from prison and exiled to Spain as part of an agreement between the Havana government and the Catholic Church.

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International - Cuban dissident wins European Parliament's Sakharov Prize

The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov human rights prize to Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez, the Cuban dissident whose four-month hunger strike ultimately led to the release of numerous...

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Cuba - Government breaks promise by keeping three "Black Spring" journalists...

The journalists still held are refusing to go into exile, which is the Castro regime's condition for their release.

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Cuba - Like Nobel ceremony, Sakharov Prize ceremony has empty chair

Guillermo "El Coco" Fariñas Hernández has not been allowed to leave Cuba.

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Cuba - Journalist arrested twice in less than 24 hours

Guillermo Fariñas was held for seven hours at a police station in Santa Clara province, accused of "public scandal" following a street protest staged in solidarity with a family that has been evicted...

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Cuba - Jailed journalists begin hunger strikes

Pedro Argüelles Morán and Albert Santiago du Bouchet began their action nearly a year after the death in prison of dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo following a hunger strike.

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Cuba - Spain must press Cuba to keep promises to free journalists, says CPJ

Three months have passed since the November 2010 deadline for Cuban authorities to free the remaining dissidents.

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Cuba - Journalist released on parole, allowed to stay in country

Press reports indicate that Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez had balked at the government's offer to be released on parole, asking instead for a pardon.

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Cuba - "Black Spring" journalist released against his wishes

A Cuban journalist who had refused to leave prison until all political prisoners were freed was released against his will last week as the Cuban government continues to free opposition activists and...

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Cuba - Two journalists still held after "Black Spring" journalist Iván...

Iván Hernández is the second of the "Black Spring" journalists to be allowed to stay in the country following their release.

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Cuba - Human Rights Watch urges government to stop arbitrary arrests of...

The government arbitrarily detained at least 50 people leading up to the one-year anniversary of Orlando Zapata Tamayo's death, according to dissidents who spoke to the organisation.

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Cuba - Last of Black Spring journalists freed; one reporter still jailed

Pedro Argüelles Morán, 62, is the third journalist of the Black Spring detainees to be permitted to remain in Cuba after rejecting exile to Spain as a condition for his release.

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