Cuban detainees Carlos Pupo and Lazaro Seara at court on Thursday. Photo: Tim Clarke/The Tribune

TWO Cubans, who have been held in detention in the Bahamas for almost three years, have been released after a Supreme Court hearing on Thursday morning.

Carlos Pupo and Lazaro Seara appeared before Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs for a habeas corpus application calling on the state to justify their detention or set them free. The men had been held since 2013.

The judge heard that Seara had never been brought before a court in breach of the law while Pupo was fined by a magistrate for illegal landing but had paid it, as well as his airfare back to Florida. But both had remained in custody.

The Cubans have claimed they were abused and beaten at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre. Pupo appeared as a witness in the trial of the five Royal Bahamas Defence Force marines accused of carrying out a series of high profile beatings at the Detention Centre in 2013. He testified against the officers.

Full story on Friday

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