HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will set free and send to Spain another five political prisoners who are not part of the 52 dissidents the government agreed in July to release as President Raul Castro continued emptying the communist-led island's jails of opposition members.
The Catholic Church said on Thursday the five would leave Cuba soon, which will raise to 47 the total number of prisoners freed since the July accord brokered by the Church was announced.
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