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After the release this weekend of Eduardo Díaz Fleitas, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez and Angel Moyá Acosta there remain eight seven members of the Group of 75, imprisoned since the "black spring" of 2003, still in jail because of their refusal to accept forced exile as a condition of any parole. Additionally, one of the prisoners Angel Moyá Acosta, is refusing to be released until two seriously ill prisoners, Pedro Argüelles and Librado Linares, are first set free.
To understand the impatience with the prisoner releases consider this. In 2003, it took only a few days to arrest and a few weeks more to try, convict and sentence to lengthy prison terms some 75 dissidents.
But it has now taken more than seven months and counting to release the 52 prisoners that remained in jail when Spain, the Catholic Church and the Castro dictatorship agreed to their release.
The temptation might be to blame typical communist inefficency, but the real reason for the delay is that the regime, with the assistance of its partners in Madrid and in the church, is manipulating the prisoners' fate until the end.
The eight seven prisoners are:
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