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Cuban journalist Lázaro Yuri Valle leaves prison and travels to U.S. with special permission

  • Source: EFE
  • June 6, 2024

“Independent Cuban journalist and activist Lázaro Yuri Valle Roca, who has been in prison since June 2021 and was sentenced in 2022 to five years in prison for continued enemy propaganda, left the island this Wednesday [June 5] for the United States after obtaining humanitarian parole.

As EFE was able to confirm through various sources, Valle, 62, and his wife Eralidis Frómeta, also an activist, flew this morning from Havana to Miami (Florida) on an American Airlines flight. In recent months she had warned about the deterioration of the journalist's health.”

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