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Cuba pardons 2,010 prisoners for Holy Week

April 04, 2026

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CWN Editor's Note: In what it described as a “humanitarian and sovereign gesture” within “the context of the religious celebrations of Holy Week,” Cuba’s Communist regime pardoned 2,010 prisoners.

The government did not release a list of the pardoned prisoners, Vatican News reported.

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