GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: In Cuba this weekend, the government released a political prisoner of note. CNN's Havana bureau chief Lucia Newman has our report.</s>LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cuban dissident Felix Bonne could hardly believe he'd exchanged his prison cell of nearly three years for his home. "I am overjoyed, I am so happy," he said. "But I still cannot conceive of a sensation of feeling free -- not yet." Bonne is one of the so-called "Group of Four," Cuba's best-know dissident group, sentenced to between three and five years prison terms, the victim of conspiring against the revolution, in league with the United States. Their arrest and subsequent sentencing sparked fierce international criticism of Cuba's communist government. Numerous other government and Pope John Paul II called for their release. Bonne thanked those who pressed for his freedom, and like the Cuban government, had no explanation for his release. "It's easier to guess the intention and the roads of the almighty than the intentions of Cuba's state security apparatus," he said. Cuban rights advocate Alasardo Sanchez (ph) believes president Fidel Castro's government is yielding to public opinion. "It seems the Cuban government has decided to respond positively to so many calls for their freedom, as well as to respect the spirit and letter of the pee national code," he says. According to Cuban law, prisoners who've complete more than half their term can be released early for good behavior. Bonne's release has raised expectations that at least two of the three members of the group who remain in prison will also be freed. Bonne, however, says he doesn't not for how long he'll remain free, because he says, nothing about being in prison has changed his political views. Lucia Newman, CNN, Havana.
Political Prisoner of Note Released in Cuba