Cuban President Raul Castro has expressed regret at the death of a political activist due to be buried Thursday, amid reports that police have detained dissidents across the country to prevent protests. Opposition groups said its members had been placed under house arrest or surveillance across the Communist island, ahead of the funeral of Orlando Zapata, who died on Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it deeply regretted the death of a Cuban political prisoner who died this week after an 85-day hunger strike to demand better prison conditions. Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 42, died Tuesday at a Havana hospital where he had been receiving fluids intravenously in an attempt to keep him alive, according to the independent ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Socialist government on Thursday voiced criticism of Cuba after the death of a hunger-striking dissident, a departure from usual Spanish policy of calling for closer relations with the communist island. Speaking in parliament, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called on Cuba to free political prisoners and respect human rights. Political prisoner Orlando Zapata, 42, died ...