Remaining ‘Black Spring’ journalist released in Cuba
08 Mar 2011Cuban reporter Pedro Arguelles Moran has been released from prison on parole. He is the last of the journalists jailed during the 2003 “Black Spring” crackdown to be freed. In April 2003 he was sentenced to 20 years in prison under Law 88, for commiting acts “aimed at subverting the internal order of the nation”. He was released as part of an agreement brokered by the Catholic church in 2010.
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