(CNN) -- Three Cuban political prisoners who were not part of an originally announced release, will nonetheless be freed, Cuba's Roman Catholic Church said Saturday.
The three would join 52 other detainees Cuba pledged to free following a deal brokered by the island's Catholic Church and Spain's foreign ministry, according to a news release by archbishop of Havana.
The church identified the three additional prisoners as Rolando Jimenez Posada, Arturo Suarez Ramos and Ciro Perez Santana.
Jimenez was sentenced to 12 years in 2003 for disclosing secrets concerning national security, the state-owned EFE news agency reported.
Suarez has spent 23 years in prison as part of a 30-year sentence for intent to leave Cuba illegally and piracy, EFE said.
The third prisoner, Perez, was arrested in 1994 and is serving a 20-year sentence for intent to leave the country illegally, piracy, and having illegal weapons, the agency reported.
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