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• Cuba prisoner of Hialeah freed after six years

  Cuba prisoner of Hialeah freed after six years

  Cuba has freed a Cuban-American convicted of people smuggling after an incident in 2006 in which another smuggler was shot to death by Cuban security forces and a third was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

  Julio Rafael Mesa Farinas said he was taken Wednesday to the Havana airport directly from the same hospital prison wing where U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross is being held, and flew to Miami with the assistance of U.S. diplomats in Havana. He arrived in Florida on Wednesday.

  Gross got into a shouting match with a State Security official after his 15-year prison sentence was upheld on appeal, accusing him of lying by promising “benefits like a reduction in sentence” if he cooperated with the legal process, Mesa said.

• Dissidents: 20 women detained on way to Pollán’s home

  Dissidents: 20 women detained on way to Pollán’s home

  The women were detained to keep them from meeting about the Ladies in White’s future following the death of the group’s leader.

• Convicted Cuban spy wants transfer to Florida prison

  Convicted Cuban spy wants transfer to Florida prison

  One of the five Cuban spies convicted as part of the “Wasp Network” requested a transfer to a medium-security prison in northwestern Florida to make it easier for his mother to visit him, according to supporters.

• A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health

  A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health

  Julio Rafael Mesa Fariñas, freed by Cuba on Friday, was in a cell next to Alan Gross during part of his incarceration.