西班牙政府表示，一架载有37名古巴前政治犯及其200多名家人的飞机抵达马德里。
马德里去年促成了古巴与天主教会的协议，古巴同意释放2003年镇压运动中被逮捕的75名异议人士。这次是抵达西班牙的古巴异议人士人数最多的一批。这架航班是西班牙政府的包机，这将使西班牙收留的古巴前异议人士的人数上升到115人。
反对派组织说，古巴仍有很多政治犯。哈瓦那长期以来坚持说，它没有关押政治犯，只关押了一些受美国“雇佣”的破坏古巴共产主义制度的人。
The Spanish government says a plane carrying 37 former political prisoners from Cuba and more than 200 members of their families has arrived in Madrid.
It was the largest group of Cuban dissidents to arrive in Spain since Madrid facilitated an agreement with Cuba and the Catholic Church last year to free 75 dissidents arrested in a 2003 crackdown. The flight was chartered by the Spanish government and brings the number of Cuban ex-detainees given refuge in Spain to 115.
Opposition groups say a number of political prisoners remain in Cuba. Havana has long maintained that it does not hold political prisoners, only “mercenaries” who were working with the United States to undermine Cuban communism.