European
conference demands freedom for the Cuban Five
ONE
hundred delegates from 28 European countries meeting
in Italy for the Continental Conference of Cuba
Solidarity Organizations, have demanded freedom for
the Cuban Five, the anti-terrorist fighters
imprisoned in the United States since 1998.
The Special Declaration of the conference,
meeting in the Italian city of Terni, Umbria, has
been sent to the European Parliament, political and
administrative bodies of the European Union,
national parliaments and the governments of the
nations represented at the conference.
The text refers to the dignity of Gerardo
Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero,
Fernando González and René González, who have all
been incarcerated for 10 years for trying to prevent
acts of terrorism plotted in southern Florida with
Washington’s complicity.
The document condemns the delaying maneuvers of
the U.S. government, aimed at preventing the Five
from being released, as part of that government’s
aggressive and genocidal anti-Cuba policies.
The declaration also condemns the United States
for protecting self-confessed criminals like Luis
Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, who are freely
walking the streets of Miami in the state of
Florida, AIN reports.
Translated by Granma International
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