HAVANA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Cuba will release some 2,900 jailed political prisoners with pardons, President Raul Castro announced.
Castro's declaration Friday said the pardons include 86 people from 25 countries, the El Nuevo Herald newspaper in Miami reported. But U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross, serving a 15-year jail sentence in Havana for delivering high-tech Internet equipment Cuban Jews, will not be among those released, a source told the Herald.