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Obama can order the release of the
Five, Alarcón reaffirms
 MATANZAS (AIN).— U.S. President Barack Obama can
order the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists
imprisoned in the United States, Ricardo Alarcón,
president of the Cuban Parliament, reaffirmed.
The likewise member of the Political Bureau of the
Communist Party of Cuba gave a master lecture for
religious leaders at the Theological Seminary in
this city, on the 80th anniversary of the
Hispanic-American Evangelical Congress in Havana.
Alarcón said that President Obama has it in his
hands to end the injustice committed against
Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero,
Fernando González and René González.
“Will the impunity continue under his mandate?”
Alarcón asked, adding, “He (Obama) knows that the
Constitution gives the president the power to
withdraw the disgraceful charges that were the basis
of legal proceedings plagued by arbitrariness and
violations from day one.”
The
U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to review the case of
the Five is the most recent confirmation that
anti-Cuban terrorism continues to enjoy the support
and complicity of that country’s government, he
stated.
During the religious congress, which ends on Friday,
the 60-plus ecumenical leaders from 15 nations said
they would concretize actions so that millions of
church members all over the world would increase
their solidarity with the cause of the Five.
Translated by Granma International
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Cuban youth call
for continuing the fight to free the Five
June 10, 2009
THE youth of Cuba have called on all people of
goodwill in the world to continue the fight for
justice that the empire is stubbornly denying the
Cuban five, imprisoned in the United States for
combating terrorism since 1998.
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Prominent New
Zealanders demand release of the Five
April 7,
2009
WELLINGTON, April 6.— One hundred prominent
political, parliamentary and trade union figures in
New Zealand today called on the U.S. government to
immediately release the five Cuban anti-terrorists
who have been serving unjust sentences in that
country for more than 10 years.
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Cuban Five condemn
Israeli aggression in Gaza
January
21, 2009
Urgent
message to the Palestinian people:
IT is with profound pain and infinite indignation
that we have witnessed the criminal massacre of the
Palestinian people; there are no words to describe
this holocaust. The death of every innocent child,
woman and man and the destruction of the homeland’s
holy ground are crimes against humanity and debts
that will someday be paid for dearly by the
governments of Israel, the United States — which
supports the former — and international imperialism.
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