Weekly Report - 09 April 2026 (WR-26-14)

Cuba’s Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) government recently announced one of the biggest mass prisoner releases in recent years, with 2,010 prisoners to be pardoned. Coming less than a month after Havana revealed that 51 prisoners would be freed [WR-26-11], the announcement was made several days after a Russian tanker delivered the first oil shipments to Cuba in three months after Washington eased its oil blockade [WR-26-13], which has applied unprecedented pressure to the island.