Castro indultará to nearly 3,000 prisoners

The Cuban Government yesterday announced pardons "for humanitarian reasons" for more than 2,900 prisoners that will be effective in the coming days, reported the site official Web.

A note of the State Council published on this website indicates that the measure responds to "established policy" and "numerous requests from relatives and various religious institutions".

"Are not included in this benefit, with few exceptions, punished for crimes of espionage, terrorism, murder, murder, drug trafficking, pederasty with violence, robbery with force in inhabited dwelling, rape and corruption of minors", States the communiqué.

Also points out that will be made in freedom "some convicted of offences against the security of the State" and in all cases the pardoned "have fulfilled an important part of the sentence in prison and shown good behaviour".

The Cuban Government says that it is "a" u000a"sovereign and humanitarian gesture" according to "the characteristics of the acts committed, the good behaviour in prison, the age and disease suffering from, as well as the extinct time of their convictions".

Adds that on the list are older than 60 years, sick, women and youth "with no previous criminal record, who got a job and raised their cultural level and possibilities of social reintegration".

The measure, which will be implemented in "coming days", is more pardon made by the Government since 1998, when freed more than 200 prisoners following the visit of Pope John Paul II to the island.

In April 2008 Castro announced the commutation of the death penalty of several common prisoners was replaced by penalties of imprisonment or 30 years, in line with a policy applied since 2000 and interrupted in 2003, when it executed three hijackers.

Between July 2010 and u000aearlier this year the Cuban regime opened a process of releases of political prisoners who it was brokered by the Catholic Church of the island and the Government of Spain and marked the release of 126 people.

Cuban National Assembly yesterday made his second and last full year with the presence of Cuban President Raúl Castro and the debate on the country's economic situation and budget plans for 2012 agenda.

RAÚL spoke of changes in the subject migration
the President of Cuba, Raúl Castro, reaffirmed yesterday to the National Assembly the "constant will" "gradually" changes in the country's restrictive immigration policy but it offered no further details or met deadlines.

"Reaffirm the invariable will gradually introduce the changes required in this complex theme, while in its entirety to assess the beneficial effects and" u000a"unfavourable of every step we take," said general Castro.

The Cuban Assembly (unicameral Parliament) today held their second and last full year, marked by the expectation that the Cuban President announced details on the "update" and "flexibilization" of migration policy which spoke at the parliamentary session in August. In this climate of expectation seemed refer Castro mentioned that "there have been good and bad intentioned exhortations that we apresuremos step."

Share this article

Digg it!

del.icio.us

MySpace

Facebook

Fark

Reddit

Newsvine