On July 11, 2023, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called for Cuba to release its “more than 700 individuals who remain in Cuban jails, condemned to prison sentences ranging up to 25 years for exercising their freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly.”
This was a reiteration of the U.S. “call for the immediate release of unjustly detained political prisoners and urge the international community to join us in demanding the Cuban government release the hundreds of students, journalists, artists, young people, and others unjustly imprisoned.”
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Blinken, Call to Release All 11J Political Prisoners in Cuba, State Dep’t (July 11, 2023).
