Two announcements Saturday from the Archdiocese of Havana listed the names of first five, then seven more prisoners who are expected to leave for Europe in the coming days.
Last week, the Church in Cuba announced the forthcoming release of 52 political prisoners — five who were to be released immediately.
The momentum is thus growing in this process of mediation being carried out by the Church, which already brought the freedom of a paraplegic prisoner and the relocation of several others to their home provinces.
Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino, archbishop of Havana, has been leading the mediation, which saw its first fruit in early May when the Ladies in White — a group of wives and mothers of political prisoners — were able to continue their habitual Sunday marches.
