[NYTr] Demands in Boston for Release of Cuban 5
 
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:26:24 -0500 (CDT)


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Boston Wants Cuban 5 Free

# Washington, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Representatives from several
organizations of solidarity with Cuba is expected to rally in front of
a subway in Boston, Massachusetts, to demand the release of five Cuban
anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States.

Alicia Jrapko, member of the of the International Committee to Free the
Five, told Prensa Latina that the demonstration will take place next
days, prior the August 20 hearing in Atlanta.

Participants in the rally will distribute information on the case and
details of the hearing among passers-by, said Jrapko, who also expects
the presence of lawyers throughout the world in that hearing.

"Their presence," stated the activist, "will guarantee that when
returning their countries or states, they can take the case to their
organizations and join the struggle for the release of the Cuban Five."
Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino
and Rene Gonzalez are currently in US prisons since September 12, 1998,
for having infiltrated terrorist groups working in Miami.

Their sentences ran from 15 years to double life terms, the latter to
Gerardo Hernandez.

In the August 20 hearing in the US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in
Atlanta, the Cuban Five defense team will denounce political
manipulations of the case, and according to attorney Leonard Weinglass,
present three topics of appeal on their favor.

"We have a number of topics to present before judges, but the most
important ones are if Cause No. 3 against Gerardo Hernandez proceed or
not, US attorney John Kastrenakes" bad behavior in his final allegation
of the case, and sentences by Hernandez, Guerrero and Labanino,
condemned to double life imprisonments," noted Weinglass.

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Cuban 5 Victims of Arbitrariness, Lies

by Cira Rodriguez Cesar

Havana, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) It has been two years since three judges
of the US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in Atlanta unanimously
overruled the convictions of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters,
unfairly imprisoned in that northern nation.

The August 9, 2005 decision was reversed some days later by that court,
without having been released them so far and due to that, a large
process of appeals still continue.

Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero and
Fernando Gonzalez were detained on September 12, 1998 and later
convicted and sentenced in a rigged trial in Miami, for having
infiltrated terrorist groups working there.

The Five, as they are universally known, are currently serving harsh
sentences ranging from 15 years to double life terms, charged with
crimes they never committed.

The three judges who annulled their sentences two years ago acted with
ethics and clarified in a detailed 93-page report that the Five were
tried in a hostile atmosphere, so they remanded a new trial outside of
Miami.

Faced with the Atlanta Appeal Court decision, a UN Group on Arbitrary
Detentions declared illegal the imprisonment of the Five.

The case is still being revised by that court, and the defense team
must present complementary arguments on the August 20 hearing to prove
anomalies of the judiciary process.

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