HAVANA: Communist-run Cuba, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, has pardoned 2,604 convicts, state-run media reported ...
HAVANA: Communist-run Cuba, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, has pardoned 2,604 convicts, state-run media reported on Friday , without releasing a list of those pardoned.
Cuban authorities, who do not regularly publish data on the island's prison population, reported in 2012 that 57,337 of its 11.2 million inhabitants were behind bars. The Madrid-based rights group Cuban Prisoners Defenders estimates the real number is much higher, putting it in the top spot. Around 123,000 of the country's 11.2 million inhabitants - about 1 percent of the population - are currently behind bars, it says.Cuba has pardoned thousands of prisoners in recent years, in particular prior to papal visits. In late 2016, it pardoned 787 convicts in response to Pope Francis' call to all heads of state for acts of clemency.
Cuban Prisoners Defenders, which has links to Cuba’s largest opposition group, the Patriotic Union of Cuba, estimates there are 138 members of dissident organizations in prison.
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