And although the Parole Board unanimously turned down his request for parole in 1997, he was conditionally released from prison in January for good behavior, as is required by state law.
He was conditionally released in 2002, but he returned to prison for a parole violation in 2005.
Update: On 27 October Johnson was conditionally released without electronic survey by the Tribunal of East Flanders (Gent).
This article was amended on 27 October 2014 to reflect the fact that since publication Johnson has been conditionally released without electronic survey by the Tribunal of East Flanders (Gent).
Mr. Verse, whose most recent conviction was on sexual battery charges, in 1992, was conditionally released in May 2003 from a new mental health program to treat sexual offenders.
His counsel team introduced the UN experts' opinion at the hearing before Judge Afiuni on 10 December 2009, following which he was conditionally released after almost three years in detention without trial.
Since April 2004, a number of those sentenced have been conditionally released, seemingly for health reasons, so it is worth keeping up the pressure on the Cuban government to release prisoners of conscience.
Five suspects faced charges of taking part in "terrorist activities" on Friday evening, but two were conditionally released.
In a draft report on the laws' effects last year, Ms. Lieb and her co-author, Scott Matson, found that among the 121 sex offenders Washington had committed in the last 10 years, just five had been conditionally released.
A handful of political prisoners have been conditionally released, but more than 300 remain in prison under brutal conditions.
Eric Van Der Sypt, an official at the prosecutors' office, told AFP that three of the five charged suspects were still in custody while the other two had been conditionally released.
