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Florida
D.A.’s office defers decision on motion for a
retrial
THE motion proposed by
Leonard Weinglass, requesting a new trial at a venue
outside of Miami for the five Cubans unjustly
imprisoned in the United States after a rigged trial
in that Florida city, should have received a reply
from the D.A.’s office on December 15. However the
answer was put off until December 23 and then the
26.
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Message
to the U.S. people
GERARDO
Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero,
Fernando González and René González have now been
imprisoned in the United States for more than four
years without having committed any crime or having
in any way inflicted damage on the U.S. people.
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One
year after Fernando’s unjust sentence
ON
December 18, 2001, Fernando González Llort, one of the five
Cubans convicted after a political trial in Miami, was
sentenced to 19 years in prison.
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German
solidarity committee with the five
German
friendship groups with Cuba have formed a solidarity committee
for the five Cubans illegally imprisoned in the United States,
informed socialist daily Neues
Deutschland.
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When
terrorism is synonymous with felony
IT
was possibly the ancient Greeks who laid down the bases of
semiotics, when they said that knowing how to name objects,
actions and human motivations was the most important factor.
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Double-standard
U.S. policy criticized in Russia
ON December 10, the Russian
newspaper Pravda denounced the double standard of U.S.
policy regarding the battle against terrorism in the case of
the five Cubans sentenced in that country after an unfair
trial for alleged espionage.
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GUATEMALAN
FREE THE FIVE COMMITTEE FORMED
Popular,
political and trade union organizations in Guatemala have formed
a committee for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the
United States, during a rally in which the U.S. economic
blockade on Cuba was also condemned.
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LAOS
SUPPORTS CUBAN CAMPAIGN
THE
people and government of Laos are supporting Cuba in its
campaign to free the five heroes unjustly imprisoned in the
United States, because they recognize the anti-terrorist work
they were carrying out for their country, states Phovanykev
Langsy, ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of
Laos, while visiting the island’s central province of
Cienfuegos.
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THE
STRUGGLE TO FREE THE FIVE
We have received
messages from several parts of the world on coordinated
activities demanding the release of the five Cubans unjustly
sentenced by a Miami court.
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We
don’t need permission to travel to Cuba
Member of the
National Committee to Free the Five, activist with the
International Action Center and collaborator with the group
Pastors for Peace, Alicia Jrapko designates a good part of her
time to the Cuba solidarity movement from within the United
States.
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Freedom
for the Five tour in Mexico
MEXICO City.— A
national tour to alert public opinion south of the U.S. border
to their cause is the new challenge for the Mexican Committee to
Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners in the United States.
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International
trade union leaders join the campaign for the Five
THE World
Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has asked the Atlanta Federal
Court to release the five Cuban patriots who are prisoners of
the U.S. government.
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Attorney
denounces injustice against the Five in Washington
DURING a Washington protest
and before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people, Leonard
Weinglass, the eminent U.S. human rights attorney, who is also
heading the Cuban Five’s legal defense team, denounced the
fact that the five Cubans who fought against terrorism
committed from the United States are now serving life terms in
that nation’s penitentiaries.
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Solidarity
with the Five growing
QUEBEC,
Canada.— From October 19-26 Cuba Solidarity organizations in
this city organized a solidarity week for the five Cuban
prisoners imprisoned in the United States. At the same time,
the group put together a special radio program on this theme
on Centre Ville Radio
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FROM
THE NATIONAL PRESS
Invincible friendship
BY
ODALIS RIQUENES CUTIÑO
THIS
October 16, in a cold cell in the Florence penitentiary,
Antonio Guerrero had his 44th birthday. In Santiago de Cuba,
his intimate friend Marieta Milá Lombida, linked to him by
more than a shared
birthday, regales him with her recollection of details, dreams
and desires
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CD featuring poems by one of
the five set to music launched
Fidel attends homage
to Antonio Guerrero
PRESIDENT Fidel Castro
attended the concert for the CD Regresaré (I will
return) featuring poems by Antonio (Tony) Guerrero, one of the
five Cubans serving unjust prison sentences in the United
States.
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U.S.
committee calls for release of the Five
September
12, 2002
THE
U.S. National Committee to Free the Five has called on President
Bush for the immediate release of the five Cuban fighters
against terrorism currently in U.S. federal prisons. In parallel
it has organized a public meeting in New York for today,
September 12, four years after their arrest.
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This
Thursday, international day of solidarity with the Five
September
11, 2002
THIS
September 12, four years on from the detention of the five
Cuban heroes currently imprisoned in the United States, is to
be marked by various activities worldwide, mounted by an
international campaign for their release that has been
steadily growing and gaining in strength.
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The
case of the five: unknown in the United Stated
William F. Gaskins
tells us that he lives in Texas, United States. "I recently
visited your web site and can honestly say it has opened new
doors for me. I had no idea that five Cuban citizens were being
imprisoned by our government. CNN apparently was not
notified."
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For
the release of the five
Ernesto Cabreras
from Miami has sent us a poem dedicated to the five Cuban heroes
imprisoned in the United States. His intention is to offer them
"more fortitude in these difficult times." Here it is:
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New
Solidarity Committee with the five Cuban patriots established in
Sao Paulo
A Solidarity Committee
for the Liberation of the Five Cubans in U.S. Jails was
established in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 19, with the
objective of promoting solidarity with the prisoners, their
families and the Cuban people.
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Concerning
the five Cuban hero prisoners in the United States
We received
the following message From the United States: “We
are proud to announce the launching of a new website: www.freethefive.org.
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Mexican-American
delegation meets with relatives of the Five
“WE are going
to inform the U.S. people about the injustice committed
against those fighting terrorism,” affirmed Dolores Huerta
in Havana. The co-founder of the U.S. Agricultural Workers
Union was at a meeting with relatives of the five Cubans
unjustly imprisoned in the United States.
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‘The
United States seems to want to bury the Five’s case’
OVER
one hundred people, including members of the British
Parliament’s Houses of Commons and Lords, filled a House of
Commons committee room in London on July 9 to hear a talk by
Paul McKenna, lawyer for one of the five Cubans imprisoned in
the United States.
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Getting it straight about flying to Cuba
PRIVATE U.S. aircraft can LEGALLY and SAFELY fly to
Cuba without provoking an international confrontation. I did so on
Thanksgiving Day with my plane loaded with medical donations from the United States.
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Miami march this
Saturday for the release of the Five
July 17, 2002
WASHINGTON.— Organizations supporting the lifting of the
blockade on Cuba have called for a march in Miami this Saturday to demand the release of
the five young Cubans incarcerated in that country.
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Declared honorary members of the
Journalists’ Union of Cuba
April
10, 2002
GERARDO Hernández and René González, two of the
five Cubans jailed in the United States, after receiving harsh sentences in rigged trials,
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