Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, a high-profile Cuban artist who spent five years in prison, has arrived in the United States, where he is expected to live in exile.

Axar.az reports, citing Al Jazeera, that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Alcantara’s arrival on Saturday and called on the Cuban government to free 700 other political prisoners detained in the country.

Otero Alcantara, 38, was sentenced to five years in prison for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing the public order.

“For daring to imagine a free Cuba, he was harassed, detained and imprisoned time and again, but today, he is in exile,” Rubio said.

Rights groups have repeatedly called on Cuban authorities to release hundreds of political prisoners.

“The Trump administration remains committed to the Cuban people’s pursuit of freedom,” Rubio added.

Rubio also called for the “immediate release” of “the more than 700 unjustly detained political prisoners” in Cuba.