To date, none of the 27 female or 127 male political prisoners released have been granted full freedom. All have been released under conditional release licenses or parole, remaining under threat of re-imprisonment if they “persist in their counterrevolutionary activities.” Many of these Cuban citizens were unjustly convicted in retaliation for their participation in the July 11, 2021 (11J) protests. Over 1,000 individuals remain imprisoned for political reasons on the island according to DefensaCD Cuba Decide.

The list of known released political prisoners as of January 20, 2025 is as follows:

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 - Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump on Monday revoked the Biden administration's last-minute decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House said.

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba started releasing some prisoners Wednesday as part of talks with the Vatican, a day after President Joe Biden’s administration announced his intent to lift the U.S. designation of the island nation as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The decision is the latest in a series of conflicting U.S. approaches to Cuba by different administrations.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Frances Robles / The New York Times

This interview in Spanish by Camila Acosta of George Utset is related to the explosion reported this week at a Cuban military installation. You may view the news reported earlier here.

(Source: Noticias Cubanet)

Flight BBQ2241, carrying 54 passengers and three crew members, was scheduled to depart for Ignacio Agramonte International Airport in Camagüey, Cuba, at 11:40 a.m., Friday. The plane taxied for departure at 11:22 a.m. but returned to the gate due to an electrical odor detected inside the cabin.

The island's Communist Armed Forces reported that the detonation shook the small rural community of Melones, in the eastern province of Holguín, 724 km southeast of Havana. The whereabouts of four officers and nine soldiers are unknown.

Edelweiss Air (Edelweiss is a sister carrier of SWISS and a member of the Lufthansa Group) will discontinue its Zurich-Havana route from March 2025 due to declining demand and operational challenges at Havana’s José Martí International Airport.

ociete Generale SA and BNP Paribas SA on Thursday won the dismissal of a lawsuit in New York accusing them of trafficking in assets that Fidel Castro's government seized in 1960 from the former owners of a Cuban bank.

The case had sought damages estimated at several hundred million dollars.

It was brought by 12 heirs, mostly children and grandchildren, of Carlos and Pura Nuñez, who had owned Banco Nuñez before and during the Cuban Revolution.

In 2024, according to official figures, 93 returns occurred from different countries in the region, with a total of 1,384 Cubans deported.