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Cuba Church announces release of 12 more prisoners (AP)

July 10th, 2010

Mireya Penton, mother of Cuban political prisoner Lester Gonzalez, walks accompanied by her granddaughter Claudia Gonzalez after talking with The Associated Press about her son's possible liberation in Santa Clara, Cuba, Thursday, July 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - Cuban church officials on Saturday released the names of 12 more political prisoners who will be freed and sent into exile in the coming days under a landmark agreement with President Raul Castro’s government, bringing to 17 the total number of jailed dissidents who have accepted asylum in Spain.


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