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CUBA
Number of Cuban political prisoners remains
high, says Human Rights Commission
HAVANA, Cuba, January 13 (Miguel Saludes
/ www.cubanet.org) - The number of political
prisoners in Cuban jails remains roughly
the same as last year, according to a report
by the Commission for Human Rights and National
Reconciliation, a non-governmental Cuban
organization.
The report says that the list of prisoners
this year includes 294 names, whereas last
year's extended to 317, and points out that
this past year there were at least 21 new
cases documented.
The number imprisoned for matters of opinion
exceeds a hundred, says the report, and
of those, at least 84 have been classified
as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.
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