[NYTr] Int'l Day for Cuban 5 Freedom  Commemorated Worldwide
 
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:41:37 -0500 (CDT)

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International Day for Cuban Five Freedom Commemorated Worldwide

Havana, Sept 12 (acn) A new international campaign to demand the 
immediate release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly 
held in US prisons is beginning on September 12 and will run until 
October 8, the occasion of the ninth anniversary of their imprisonment.

World organizations in solidarity with Cuba are rallying on Wednesday 
in several sites around the planet to protest the five's unfair 
incarceration and demand their freedom.

As part of the campaign, one of the defense lawyers of the Cuban Five, 
Leonard Weinglass, will brief a large audience at the Howard 
University, in Washington, on the details of the case that Washington 
has surrounded in a wall of silence.

Likewise, a video message by popular US actor Danny Glover supporting 
the Five's cause will be screened in that US higher education 
institution.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero 
and Rene Gonzalez, known worldwide as 'the Cuban Five', were detained 
in 1998 after they had infiltrated right-wing Cuban American 
organizations in southern Florida to prevent terrorist activities 
against the Cuban and American people.

They were charged with espionage and punished with extremely harsh 
sentences despite the antiterrorist nature of their mission. After nine 
years in prison for crimes they never committed, most legal experts 
believe there are no grounds to keep the Cuban Five imprisoned.

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