"The Cuban government has released 23 March Felix Navarro and Jose Ferrer, the last two opponents of the group known as the 'seventy-five', arrested and convicted during the Black Spring of 2003. Thus ends the release process started by Raul Castro's regime, under the auspices of the Catholic Church and the Spanish Foreign Minister, "reported Página 12.
Felix Navarro and Jose Ferrer had been convicted in an expedited manner to twenty-five years in prison. On the seventy-five opponents arrested in March 2003 and sentenced to terms ranging from six to twenty-eight years in prison, fifty-two were still in prison when negotiations began with the Catholic Church, July 7, 2010.
Forty of them have agreed to leave Cuba for their release, while twelve have refused exile. "The release process has four months behind the original schedule," said Página 12. The crackdown in March 2003 had raised the indignation in the world. In February 2010, died in prison of Orlando Zapata, after eighty-six days of hunger strike to demand improved conditions of detention of political prisoners, had led the government to first release of opposition to " health reasons ".
Seventy-five are free. But Cuban prisons are not yet empty of opponents. "There are some fifty political prisoners", said Elizardo Sanchez, spokesman of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights. 
Felix Navarro and Jose Ferrer had been convicted in an expedited manner to twenty-five years in prison. On the seventy-five opponents arrested in March 2003 and sentenced to terms ranging from six to twenty-eight years in prison, fifty-two were still in prison when negotiations began with the Catholic Church, July 7, 2010.
Forty of them have agreed to leave Cuba for their release, while twelve have refused exile. "The release process has four months behind the original schedule," said Página 12. The crackdown in March 2003 had raised the indignation in the world. In February 2010, died in prison of Orlando Zapata, after eighty-six days of hunger strike to demand improved conditions of detention of political prisoners, had led the government to first release of opposition to " health reasons ".
Seventy-five are free. But Cuban prisons are not yet empty of opponents. "There are some fifty political prisoners", said Elizardo Sanchez, spokesman of the Cuban Commission on Human Rights.
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