Raul Castro, the Cuban president, has agreed to free about a third of the country’s political prisoners in the largest such release in over a decade, according to the country’s Roman Catholic church.
The EU and the US have made freeing prisoners a condition for improving relations with the Caribbean island. The Obama administration said it was studying the latest development, which would be the biggest release since Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998.
The announcement that Cuba would free 52 prisoners followed a meeting between Mr Castro, Miguel Angel Moratinos, the Spanish foreign minister, and the Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega.
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