HAVANA — The Cuban government’s copies of the "Gaceta Oficial de la República" released on Monday included the names of the 2,010 prisoners who were pardoned in April.
Human rights activists were outraged that the list only included two political prisoners: Iván Leydis Acosta Matos, of Guantanamo, and Kevin Lay Laureido Rojas, of Isla de La Juventud.
Acosta Matos, 25, was protesting peacefully when he was arrested in 2023, and Rojas is the son of a Christian pastor and a conscientious objector, according to The Cuban Observatory of Human Rights.
Prisoners Defenders, a Madrid-based nonprofit organization, has a list of 1,260 political prisoners in Cuba that includes 35 minors.
Artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Leonard Richard González Alfonso are among the political prisoners who remain behind bars in Cuba, according to Human Rights Watch, a New York City-based nonprofit.
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🚨🇨🇺As part of the process for granting prison benefits established by law and in accordance with Article 90, Section II, of the Constitution of the Republic, it was decided to release 2,010 inmates through a pardon approved by the Government of Cuba.
— Cuban Embassy in US (@EmbaCubaUS) April 3, 2026
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