[NYTr] US Denies Visas to Wives of Cuban Political Prisoners
 
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:57:27 -0500 (CDT)

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Washington Denies Visas to Wives of Cuban Political Prisoners

Havana, Sept 13 (acn) "Once again the US government lies," said the 
president of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, during a cultural 
gala on Wednesday night to celebrate the beginning of an international 
campaign for the release of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, 
Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon LabaC1ino and Rene Gonzalez, internationally 
known as the Cuban Five, who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United 
States nine years after they were detained for infiltrating terrorist 
anti-Cuba organizations based in Florida.

Alarcon was making reference to the announcement made on Wednesday 
afternoon by the US State Department informing that Olga Salanueva and 
Adriana Perez had been denied - for the eighth time - visas to visit 
their husbands Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez, respectively.

Regarding the arguments used by the US authorities to deny the visas, 
Alarcon said: "They lie. These women can not be accused of committing 
espionage because not even their husbands were."

During the gala, held at the Mella Theater in Havana coinciding with 
the ninth anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five in September 
1998, messages in support of the Cuban political prisoners from US 
actor Danny Glover and writer Alice Walker were read.

The event was also attended by Culture Minister Abel Prieto and 
relatives of the Cuban Five.

The new international campaign to demand the immediate release of the 
Cuban heroes will run until October 8.

 
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