The Cuban Catholic Church announced that the Government released 52 political prisoners.
Havana, July 7 .- The Cuban Catholic Church announced today that the island's government released 52 political prisoners, five of them in the next hours and the other in three or four months.
Following that action, all of the Group of 75, imprisoned opponents in the repression of the Black Spring of 2003, would remain free.
Chronology of key events, allods gold, around Cuba and internal dissent following the death of prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, in February.
FEBRUARY 23 .- Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a mason of 42 years in prison in 2003 and sentenced to 36 years in prison, died in a Havana hospital after a hunger strike of 85 days to seek treatment "prisoner of conscience." His death, mafia wars items, unleashed international criticism the Cuban government, mainly from USA and Europe, as well as opponents of the view that were preventable.
24 .- The President of Cuba, Raul Castro, mourns the death of Orlando Zapata, said to be the result of the relationship with the U.S. and the island states that there is no torture.
- The psychologist and independent journalist Guillermo, sto credits, Farinas, 48, began a hunger and thirst strike in tribute to Zapata and calling for the release of 26 political prisoners sick.
25 .- Zapata is buried in his hometown of Banes, in the eastern province of Holguin, amid tight security controls of the state.
26 .- The Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation said that four political prisoners have begun hunger strikes. Abandon the protest on March 3.
27 .- The newspaper Granma, spokesman for the ruling Communist Party of Cuba, first mentioned the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo to criticize the deceased and the governments and media of other countries that have condemned or deplored the fact.
28 .- The Barber Franklin Pelegrino del Toro is declared in a hunger strike in Cacocum (Holguin, east) to demand the release of political prisoners sick. Forty days after leaving the protest.
MARCH 1 .- The Cuban leader Fidel Castro to step out of the international criticism and the opposition for alleged torture and death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo.
3 .- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, denies that his country has political prisoners and said that those who are considered so by some agencies and governments are "persons who committed illegal acts."
5 .- Farinas get a Spanish diplomat who asked to leave the fast, to which she responded that their protest is "irreversible."
8 .- Granma rrred for the first time Farinas and dismissed as "U.S. agent and criminal violence."
11 .- The European Parliament condemns Cuba for Orlando Zapata's death and demands the release of all political prisoners.
Cuban Assembly accused the MEPs to "manipulate, lie and distort" and claims a "concerted campaign" against the island.
- Farinas suffers a new faint and are admitted to intensive therapy at the provincial hospital in Santa Clara.
16 .- Las Damas de Blanco initiated a series of protest marches in Havana by the seventh anniversary of the imprisonment and sentencing of their families.
18 .- The President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, demands the "immediate release of all political prisoners."
22 .- The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon mourns the death of Orlando Zapata.
29 .- Spain offers a medicalized to Farinas plane to travel to that country because of the worsening of his health, and the dissident refuses.
- Thousands of people marched in Los Angeles (USA) to ask for freedom in Cuba in an event played by the actor Andy Garcia and the blogger Yoani Sanchez, from Havana.
30 .- The secretary general of the OAS, Jose Miguel Insulza, calls upon the government for the release of 26 political prisoners sick.
APRIL 4 .- President Raul Castro says Cuba prrs to "disappear" rather than accept the "blackmail" that accuses the U.S. and Europe on the observance of human rights on the island and denounced the "incredible media campaigns" against his country .
13 and 14 .- The Spanish Cortes pass resolutions in favor of dialogue with the Government of Cuba to advocate for the liberation "immediate and unconditional release" of all political prisoners.
28 .- A group of 88 dissidents and human rights activists in Cuba Farinas calls to abandon the hunger strike.
MAY 2 .- Las Damas de Blanco resume their peaceful marches through the mediation of the Catholic Church to the government.
12 .- A group of prominent writers, intellectuals and artists such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Pedro Almodovar and Rosa Montero Madrid to present a platform for Cuba to achieve democracy "as soon as possible."
13 .- A group of Cuban poets and intellectuals criticized in a statement that Spanish intellectuals to make "the game to the eternal enemies of the island."
19 .- Meets Raul Castro and the Cuban Catholic main authorities: the archbishop of Havana, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, and Secretary of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Cuba, Dionisio Garcia.
20 .- Cardinal Ortega confirmed that the situation of political prisoners is trying "very seriously" with the government in a "process" of dialogue initiated by the Catholic Church on the island.
21 .- Farinas announces to abandon the strike if the Cuban government frees political prisoners sick, between ten and twelve, and commits to a deadline to release the rest.
JUNE 1 .- The Cuban government moved to six political prisoners to prisons in their provinces of residence, as a first step after his meeting with the Church.
11 .- The Government of Cuba to the Catholic Church announced the imminent release from prison on health grounds of dissident prisoner Ariel Sigler and a new shipment of six criminal prisoners to their provinces of residence.
12 .- The dissident prisoner Ariel Sigler, paraplegic and severely ill, get parole.
20 .- Sigler obtain a humanitarian visa from the United States.
22 .- The dissident Darsi Ferrer, considered a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International (AI), out of jail in under house arrest after being detained eleven months in preventive detention.
JULY 5 .- Farinas responsibility for their upcoming "death" to "the brothers Fidel and Raul Castro" and considers it "an honor" because with this action says tries "to save the life of the 25 political prisoners."
7 .- The Cuban government announced to release 52 political prisoners, five of whom may travel to Spainin the company of their families.