29 Cubans granted political asylum

The government has granted political asylum to 29 Cubans held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the news agency MTI reported.

U.S. forces have been holding 44 Cubans caught at sea and have been looking for countries willing to take them. Seventeen of them ended a three-week hunger strike after learning of Hungary’s decision, MTI said. Hungary’s Foreign Ministry reportedly said that the U.S. would pay for rent, winter clothes and language courses for a year for the 29, and that five others would get U.S. visas and some are waiting for a country to admit them.