[NYTr] Cuban 5 Prisoners: Online Cuban Petition for Their Freedom Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:57:13 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit sent by Jane Franklin - Oct 16, 2007 sent by En Defensa de la Humanidad http://www.defensahumanidad.cult.cu/ FREEDOM FOR THE FIVE CUBANS IMPRISONED IN THE UNITED STATES! 12 Oct 2007 08:57:49 -0700 Dear friends: Distinguish intellectuals around the World, join the claim in favor of the Cuban Five, fighters against terrorism and injustly detained in separated prisions in the U.S.A. You can join this appeal signing a petition on the Website: http://www.liberenlos5.cult.cu/index.php?cont=registro&lang=1 English language page: http://www.liberenlos5.cult.cu/index.php?lang=2 or contact us at: liberenlos5@cubarte.cult.cu *** FREEDOM FOR THE FIVE CUBANS IMPRISONED IN THE UNITED STATES! For more than nine years now, five Cubans have remained imprisoned in the United States. On their shoulders rest lengthy convictions, resulting from a politicized trial held in the city of Miami. The Five were helping monitor the terrorist plans orchestrated against Cuba from Florida by far right-wing Cuban groups. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, attached to the UN's former Commission on Human Rights, declared their detention to be arbitrary, and a three-judge panel, tasked with examining the case at the Atlanta Appeals Court, unanimously agreed to nullify the trial and instructed that the sentences delivered in Miami be repealed. Afterwards, in a split vote, the Court dismissed that decision; and the case is still going through the appeal process. The Five have remained in isolation in maximum security prisons, under ruthless conditions of seclusion, in violation of their human rights and of the very laws of the United States. Two of them have been deprived of the right to be visited by their wives. We join our voices to all those in the world that call for the immediate end to this enormous injustice. We must not give up on this endeavor until truth prevails and these men return to their homeland and to their families. Initial signatures: Adolfo PC)rez Esquivel, Argentina; Nadine Gordimer, SudC!frica; Wole Soyinka, Nigeria; Zhores Alfiorov, Rusia; Noam Chomsky, EEUU; Danny Glover, EEUU; Ignacio Ramonet, EspaC1a/Francia; Alice Walker, EEUU; Danielle Mitterand, Francia; Cindy Sheehan, EEUU; Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil; Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay; Manu Chao, Francia; Pablo GonzC!lez Casanova, MC)xico; Tariq AlC-, PakistC!n; Gianni Vattimo, Italia; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Alicia Alonso, Cuba; Frei Betto, Brasil; Armand Mattelart, BC)lgica; Howard Zinn, EEUU; Fernando Pino Solanas, Argentina; Silvio RodrC-guez, Cuba; Luis Eduardo Aute, EspaC1a; Gianni MinC!, Italia; W. J. T. Mitchell, EEUU; Thiago de Mello, Brasil; Mumia Abu-Jamal, EEUU; Ramsey Clark, EEUU; Istvan Meszaros, HungrC-a/Reino Unido; JosC) Luis Sampedro, EspaC1a; Jorge SanjinC)s, Bolivia; Roberto FernC!ndez Retamar, Cuba; Blanca Chancosa, Ecuador; Daniel Viglietti, Uruguay; Arturo Corcuera, PerC:; Suzy Castor, HaitC-; Piero Gleijeses, Italia/EEUU; Hildebrando PC)rez, PerC:; Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rico; Miguel D'Escoto, Nicaragua; Samuel Ruiz GarcC-a, MC)xico; Juan Mari Bras, Puerto Rico; Miguel Bonasso, Argentina; Gonzalo Ituarte, MC)xico; Roy Brown, Puerto Rico; Atilio BorC3n, Argentina; VC-ctor VC-ctor, Rep. Dominicana; Stella Calloni, Argentina; Miguel Urbano, Portugal; James Cockcroft, EEUU; Maribel Permuy, EspaC1a; Gustavo Iruegas, MC)xico; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuador; Volodia Teitelboim, Chile; Emir Sader, Brasil; Luis Britto Garcia, Venezuela; Fernando Morais, Brasil; BelC)n Gopegui, EspaC1a; Michel Collon, BC)lgica; Cintio Vitier, Cuba; NoC) Jitrik, Argentina; Lucius Walker Jr., EEUU; Eric Toussaint, BC)lgica; Paolo Beneventi, Italia; Alfredo Guevara, Cuba; Joao Pedro Stedile, Brasil; Michael Lebowitz, CanadC!; James Early, EEUU; Juan Formell, Cuba; Isaac Rosa Camacho, EspaC1a; Manuel Cabieses Donoso, Chile; Fernando RendC3n, Colombia; Humberto SolC!s, Cuba; Wim Dierckxsens, Costa Rica; Omara Portuondo, Cuba; Osvaldo LC)on, Ecuador; Medea BenjamC-n, EEUU; Manuel Mendive, Cuba; Constantino BC)rtolo, EspaC1a; Salim Lamrani, Francia; Gennaro Carotenuto, Italia; Carlo Frabetti, Italia/EspaC1a; Keith Ellis, Jamaica/CanadC!; VC-ctor Flores Olea, MC)xico; Aldo DC-az Lacayo, Nicaragua; Javier Corcuera, PerC:; Rosa Meneses, Puerto Rico; MatC-as Bosch, Rep. Dominicana; Lasse SC6derberg, Suecia; RaC:l Zibechi, Uruguay; Harold Gramatges, Cuba; Luisa Valenzuela, Argentina; Nalu Faria, Brasil; Cngela GarcC-a, Colombia; Abelardo Estorino, Cuba; Alicia Jrapko, EEUU; Alfredo Sosa Bravo, Cuba; Jorge Riechman, EspaC1a; Michele Mattelart, Francia; Fernando PC)rez, Cuba; John Saxe FernC!ndez, MC)xico; Winston Orrillo, PerC:; Roberto Fabelo, Cuba; Milagros Rivera, Puerto Rico; HC)ctor DC-az-Polanco, Rep. Dominicana/MC)xico; Catherine Legna, Francia; Adigio BenC-tez, Cuba; Eva BjC6rklund, Suecia; Daysi Granados, Cuba; Fernando Butazzoni, Uruguay; Electo Silva, Cuba; Luis Zamora, Argentina; Marilia Guimar?es, Brasil; Clvaro MarC-n, Colombia; Cngel Augier, Cuba; Setsuko Ono, EEUU; Santiago Alba, EspaC1a; Jean Marie Binoche, Francia; Fernando Buen Abad DomC-nguez, MC)xico; Desiderio Navarro, Cuba; Marta Bras Vilella, Puerto Rico; Pepe ViC1oles, Uruguay/Suecia; Luis Carbonell, Cuba; Tununa Mercado, Argentina; Rubens Diniz, Brasil; Gabriel Jaime Franco, Colombia; AntC3n Arrufat, Cuba; Al Campbell, EEUU; RamC3n Chao, EspaC1a; Ana Esther CeceC1a, MC)xico; Manuel RodrC-guez, Puerto Rico; VC-ctor Ego Ducrot, Argentina; Ricardo Antunes, Brasil; Gloria Chavatal, Colombia; Carilda Oliver Labra, Cuba; Gloria la Riva, EEUU; Olga Lucas, EspaC1a; Rosa Elena Gaspar de Alba, MC)xico; Guillermo de la Paz, Puerto Rico; Claudia Camba, Argentina; Marcelo Ernandez Macedo, Brasil; Marta Harnecker, Chile; Celina GonzC!lez, Cuba; JuliC!n Malatesta, Colombia; CC)sar LC3pez, Cuba; Brian Becker, EEUU; Alicia Hermida, EspaC1a; Julio Pomar, MC)xico; Carolina VirgC