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74 Anti-Government Protesters In Cuba Sentenced To Up To 18 Years
Cuban courts issued prison terms -- some up to 18 years -- for another 74 people involved in last summer's unprecedented anti-government protests, officials said Wednesday.
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Are There Political Prisoners In Cuba?
It was one of the most awkward moments of a press conference that was full of them: when an American journalist asked Cuban President Raul Castro about the fate of political prisoners on the island.
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On First Full Day In Cuba, Obama Spars With Castro Over Human Rights
In an extraordinary news conference Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro sparred over human rights, the Guantanamo prison and their views of their own countries and the world, even as both hailed Obama's historic visit here as a new step in normalizing relations.
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Cuban Dissidents Out of Prison But Not Entirely Free
Most of the 53 Cuban prisoners released from jail under a historic US-Cuba accord remain bound to the justice system under conditions that could easily return them to prison, dissident leaders say.
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Cuban Prisoners Freed by United States in Swap Are Heroes at Home
The three Cubans released in a prisoner exchange that paved the way for a historic breakthrough Wednesday in Havana's Cold War standoff with the United States are celebrated as heroes back home.
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Factbox: Who is Alan Gross and What Did he do?
Alan Gross, a 65-year-old U.S. foreign aid worker freed from a Cuban prison on Wednesday, was arrested in Cuba in 2009 and sentenced to 15 years for importing banned technology and trying to establish clandestine Internet service for Cuban Jews.
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US-Taliban Prisoner Swap a Precedent: Cuba Agent
The exchange of five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo for a U.S. Army soldier held captive in Afghanistan could set a precedent for a similar swap with Cuba, a Cuban intelligence agent who spent years imprisoned in the United States said Monday.
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74 Anti-Government Protesters In Cuba Sentenced To Up To 18 Years
Cuban courts issued prison terms -- some up to 18 years -- for another 74 people involved in last summer's unprecedented anti-government protests, officials said Wednesday.
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Are There Political Prisoners In Cuba?
It was one of the most awkward moments of a press conference that was full of them: when an American journalist asked Cuban President Raul Castro about the fate of political prisoners on the island.
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On First Full Day In Cuba, Obama Spars With Castro Over Human Rights
In an extraordinary news conference Monday afternoon, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro sparred over human rights, the Guantanamo prison and their views of their own countries and the world, even as both hailed Obama's historic visit here as a new step in normalizing relations.
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Cuban Dissidents Out of Prison But Not Entirely Free
Most of the 53 Cuban prisoners released from jail under a historic US-Cuba accord remain bound to the justice system under conditions that could easily return them to prison, dissident leaders say.
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Cuban Prisoners Freed by United States in Swap Are Heroes at Home
The three Cubans released in a prisoner exchange that paved the way for a historic breakthrough Wednesday in Havana's Cold War standoff with the United States are celebrated as heroes back home.
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Factbox: Who is Alan Gross and What Did he do?
Alan Gross, a 65-year-old U.S. foreign aid worker freed from a Cuban prison on Wednesday, was arrested in Cuba in 2009 and sentenced to 15 years for importing banned technology and trying to establish clandestine Internet service for Cuban Jews.
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US-Taliban Prisoner Swap a Precedent: Cuba Agent
The exchange of five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo for a U.S. Army soldier held captive in Afghanistan could set a precedent for a similar swap with Cuba, a Cuban intelligence agent who spent years imprisoned in the United States said Monday.
