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The naval base at Guantanamo Bay was leased by Cuba to the American government through the "Agreement Between the United States and Cuba for the Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval stations", signed by the President of Cuba and the President of the United States on 23 February 1903. The lease agreement from 1903 says in Article 2:
In 2010, the sentences of all remaining death row inmates in Cuba were commuted. The last person to have their death sentence commuted was Humberto Eladio Real, who killed a man during an attempted insurgency raid in 1994. His sentence was reduced to 30 years in prison in December 2010. [11] To date, no further death sentences have been handed out.
Five years ago, a reputed Miami gang member named David Paneque finished a decade-long prison sentence for stabbing a man during a robbery. He was ordered deported to his native Cuba, but the ...
The Guantanamo Bay detention center was established by the administration of George W. Bush at an American military base in Cuba in 2002. The establishment of the prison was aimed at depriving detainees of the post-9/11 “war on terror” of the constitutional rights they would enjoy on US soil. [6]
Concerns have been expressed about the operation of due process.According to Human Rights Watch, even though Cuba, officially atheist until 1992, now "permits greater opportunities for religious expression than it did in past years, and has allowed several religious-run humanitarian groups to operate, the government still maintains tight control on religious institutions, affiliated groups ...
Victor Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. ambassador who had lived a double life for decades as a covert agent of Cuba, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison by a federal judge in Miami in a ...
Cuba's government did not reply to a Reuters request for comment. Cuba has so far released around 150 prisoners, around one-quarter of the 553 it had promised to free, according to tallies ...
Alan Phillip Gross (born May 2, 1949) [5] is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).. In December 2009 he was arrested in Cuba while working on a program funded under the 1996 Helms–Burton Act, [6] which explicitly called for overthrow of Castro's government. [7]