Sonia Garro Alfonso
Cuban political prisoner Sonia Garro, her husband and another activist, in jail since their arrest in March 2012, were released from jail on Tuesday. But Garro said they have only been transferred to "house arrest" to await a long-postponed trial.
"We wait at home for a trial, but we do not know when it will be," Garro said after her release.
Garro, a member of the Cuban Ladies In White; her husband Ramón Alejandro Muñoz; and activist Eugenio Hernández were arrested during a crackdown in advance of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the island. Some time after their arrest, they were advised that they faced charges of public disorder and attempted murder, but the trial was postponed at least four times, most recently in early November.
Garro said officials did not tell her why she had been released. She said the charges against her were "an invention to free themselves of me."
Garro's unjust imprisonment had drawn the attention of Amnesty International and other activists worldwide.
Last month, after the latest trial postponment, Amnesty charged that the Castro dictatorship had placed Garro and the others in an "unfair legal limbo."
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