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Cuba frees nearly 3,000 detainees. In consideration of requests by the Catholic Church and relatives
of the prisoners, Cuban President Raul Castro has granted amnesty to 2,991 detainees. Those
pardoned included political prisoners, seniors over 60 years of age, detainees who have been
ill, and women and youths with no previous criminal history. Among the released were
also 86 foreign nationals from 25 different countries.
We join in gladness, Your Excellency, for this humanitarian gesture. May the newly freed
find solace and joy in their warm reunions with family and friends�