The Five: U.S.
is silencing an overwhelming truth
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Granma International reproduces the amicus briefs
in which 10 Nobel Prize winners signed the petition
presented by the defense
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Likewise, we present the document "Reasons to grant
the petition" signed by the representing lawyer,
Michael Ratner
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LAST March 6, something occurred that is
unprecedented in the history of the United States.
The event would have been front page news in the
land of the imperial power and anywhere else in the
world if it were not related to an irrefutable and
unprecedented truth: support for Cuba and to five of
her sons, unjustly imprisoned in U.S. jails for
fighting terrorism against their country and the
rest of the world.
That day, a total of 12 amicus curiae
briefs were presented to the Supreme Court to
support the petition presented by the Five’s defense
lawyers last January 30 for the Court to reexamine
the case.
The United States is keeping quiet and silencing
public opinion. The great paradigm of freedom of
speech has silenced such a singular event. Ricardo
Alarcón de Quesada, president of the Cuban National
Assembly, has stated that, to use the very concepts
of U.S. academics, if a dog bites a man it is not
news, but if a man bites a dog, then that is
tremendously newsworthy. Now, with this support,
humans have taken a massive bite out of the dog and
that bite has been swallowed up by the planet.
This is an unprecedented event; it represents the
largest number of amicus briefs ever to have been
presented to the U.S. Supreme Court for a revision
of a criminal trial.
Ten Nobel Prize winners, including Timor Leste
President José Ramos Horta, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel,
Rigoberta Menchú, José Saramago, Wole Soyinka,
Zhores Alferov, Nadine Gordimer, Günter Grass, Darío
Fo and Mairead Maguire; the entire Mexican Senate,
the Panamanian National Assembly; Mary Robinson (Irish
President from 1992-97) and the United Nations High
Commissioner of Human Rights (1997-2002) signed the
amicus. In addition, hundreds of legislators from
around the world have also added their signatures.
Below, Granma International reproduces the
amicus in which 10 Nobel Prize winners signed the
petition presented by the defense. Likewise, we
publish the document "Reasons to grant the petition",
signed by Michael Ratner, the representing lawyer.
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