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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:
Convicted in 2008 of conspiring with al-Qaeda, soliciting murder and providing material support for terrorism, and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, all convictions except for conspiracy were overturned in 2013. Conspiracy conviction was upheld in 2016. 2: Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi al-Tamir: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Nashwan al-Tamir ...
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 Cuban government has quietly commuted the sentence of Alina López Miyares, a Cuban-American teacher in Miami who was sent to prison after she was accused of espionage in 2017, in an unusual ...
Cuba on Wednesday began releasing prisoners jailed following anti-government protests in 2021, making good on a deal agreed with the Biden administration this week. Outgoing U.S. President Joe ...
In Cuba, the trials and long prison sentences against protesters have left many in the U.S. with little appetite to push for better relations with Cuba. In Cuba, the trials and long prison ...
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]