by por Marta Rodríguez González
May 21, 2010
Reprinted from ACN

HAVANA, Cuba, May 21 (acn) Jurists from the eastern province of Holguin called on the international solidarity organizations, especially those in the United States to increase their campaign in favor of the release of the Cuban Five.

The call, which was made in the Holguin municipality of Calixto Garcia by Antonio Jardines Leyva, president of the board of directors of the Union of Cuban Jurists in Holguin, was aimed at explaining the current situation of the Cuban Five, as they are known internationally.

Rene, Ramon, Gerardo, Fernando and Antonio are suffering long unjust sentences for having infiltrated extreme right wing organizations based in Miami in an attempt to stop terrorist activities against the Cuban people.

“The five anti-terrorist fighters will have unjustly spent 12 years in prison on September 12th,” said Jardines Leyva.

He added that “Olga and Adriana will once again request visas to visit their husbands, Rene and Gerardo respectively in prison. Olga and Adriana have been denied entry visas by the US State Department 13 times despite the international pressure.

“We will not stop, we will continue demanding their rights to visit their husbands”, said Jardines Leyva.

He pointed out the important mission the Cuban jurists have in “informing the US public opinion on the case of the Cuban Five in order to pressure President Barack Obama to use his executive power to free our five brothers”.

The jurists from Holguin, in their call in favor of justice and the release of the five anti terrorist fighters, reaffirmed that they would do all they could to continue denouncing the injustices committed against the five men.

May 28, 2010
Reprinted from ACN

HAVANA, Cuba, May 28 (acn) Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon affirmed on Friday that if the US people knew the truth about the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists, they would force President Barack Obama to release them from prison.

Injustice against Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez will continue as long as the US population is prevented from knowing the real facts, warned Alarcon, who is also a member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party.

If they knew the truth, they would demand Obama to do what he has to do: withdraw the charges and set them free, added the Cuban leader during his address to participants in the final session of the 5th International meeting on Justice and Law, held at Havana’s Convention Center.

However, “the so-called media outlets impose silence, since they don’t have much to do with information and are actually instruments of ideological control at the service of the empire”, pointed out Alarcon in the presence of relatives of the Cuban Five and of professionals from 14 nations attending the event.

He recalled that the only thing our fellow countrymen did was trying to discover and prevent criminal actions, which, against Cuba and its people, have been carried out from the United States with scandalous impunity for years, he pointed out.

Meanwhile, well-known criminals are freely wandering around the streets of the United States, among them Luis Posada Carriles, a fugitive from Venezuelan justice and the author of the sabotage against a Cubana airliner in 1976, killing all 76 people on board.

Alarcon described as clumsy and cynical the media campaign launched by the United States and Europe against the island, and reiterated the solidarity of the Cuban Parliament with the student strike in Puerto Rico, where repression caused the death of 21-year-old Natalia Sanchez, buried on Friday.

Judges, district attorneys, defense counsels, lawyers, university professors and other professionals from this sector participated in the meeting, an initiative by the Popular Supreme Court, the first edition of which took place in October, 2002.

Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, attended the inaugural ceremony of the event, in which experts from Latin America, Africa, and Europe, participated.