Cuba completes mass prisoner release despite US U-turn on deal Havana has freed 553 inmates under Vatican-mediated deal, despite Trump’s reversal on US sanctions relief.

Cuba has released 553 prisoners under a Vatican-mediated agreement, despite the collapse of a United States pledge to ease sanctions in return.

The island nation’s highest judicial authority announced late on Monday that the last of the prisoners had been freed, Cuba’s state-run media reported.

Source: Aljazeera.com