Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Friday stating that protesters detained for participating in the July 2021 ...

Human Rights Watch reported Friday that hundreds of protesters remain behind bars, even though the Cuban government agreed in January to release many following negotiations led by the Vatican.

Cuba has long tied prisoner releases to appeals from the Vatican, with thousands of prisoners released ahead of each of the papal visits to the island by St. John Paul II in 1998, Pope Benedict ...

Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in ...

In the latest in a series of measures by President Donald Trump's administration to increase pressure on the Cuban government ...

Cuba has released prominent dissident José Daniel Ferrer from jail, as part of a Cuban government decision to gradually free more than 500 prisoners as part of talks with the Vatican ...

Cuba said it would gradually release the prisoners "in the spirit of the Ordinary Jubilee of the year 2025 declared by His Holiness" following a "thorough analysis" of the legal and humanitarian ...

The Vatican’s top diplomat has called the gradual release of 553 prisoners in Cuba “a sign of great hope” at the beginning of the Catholic Church’s jubilee year.

President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks during the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit 2023, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 18, 2023.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. Credit: AP/Andrew Medichini ...