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Coordinating
actions at Five Conference
November 17.11
HOLGUIN.—Participants in the 7th
International Conference for the Freedom of the Five
and against Terrorism are agreed on the urgent need
to coordinate actions so that the U.S. legal
authorities and government allow the return to Cuba
of René González, given that his life is in danger
in Florida.
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Parliamentary
statement condemns new injustice against René
González and calls for solidarity with the Five
October.12,11
CUBAN anti-terrorist fighter René
González Sehwerert was released from Marianna
Penitentiary in the north of Florida, United States
this past October 7 after serving 13 long years of
unjust incarceration.
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The truth and
justice for
René González Sehwerert
September
22,
2011
The sentence handed
down to René included this unheard of requisite: "As
a special additional condition of his probation, the
accused is prohibited from associating with or
visiting specific places where individuals where
individuals or groups such as terrorists, members of
organizations advocating violence or organized crime
figures are known to frequent."
• Message to the
Five from
Giustino Di Celmo
September
22,
2011
EVERY
year since September 4, 1997, Giustino Di Celmo
returns to Havana’s Copacabana Hotel, walks through
its halls, greets the employees, embraces the
workers. In the lobby, he places a kiss on his hand
and caresses the bronze plaque engraved with the
face of Fabio, his son and the innocent victim of a
crime. The grief-stricken Di Celmo family have never
ceased demanding justice and an end to acts
terrorism against Cuba.
• Gilbert
Brownstone visits Gerardo in prison, says he exudes
strength
September
22,
2011
GERARDO
Hernández, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the
U.S. for 13 years, is a strong-willed man, according
to renowned American art critic Gilbert Brownstone.
• Call to action
following court decision to further punish René
González
September
22,
2011
WASHINGTON.— The International Committee for the
Freedom of the Cuban 5 imprisoned in the U.S. has
called for an international mobilization denouncing
the continuing punishment of René González, one of
the Five.
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Alianza Martiana
denounces
Judge Lenard decision in Miami
September
22,
2011
MIAMI,
September 19.— Described as a resounding and
important success was the conference held here
addressing the case of the Cuban Five, attended by
100 members of the Alianza Martiana, who denounced
the decision by Judge Lenard requiring René González
to remain in the United States to complete three
years of probation after having served his full
sentence in prison.
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13 YEARS OF UNJUST IMPRISONMENT
Breaking down the wall of silence
September
12,
2011
THE
people of Cuba, represented by their political and
mass organizations, accompanied families and friends
of the Five in condemning the 13 years of their
unjust incarceration in U.S. jails at a political-cultural
event in the capital on September 12.
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Will the U.S. hear
Gerardo's arguments?
September
1,
2011
CUBA.— The international solidarity movement
calling for the freedom of the five Cuban anti-terrorists
imprisoned in the United States continues to follow
the habeas corpus appeal initiated by Gerardo
Hernández, one of the prisoners.
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Youth for the
Five
August
22,
2011
MEMBERS of the 3rd Foreign Students’
International Brigade, representatives of the
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban
5 and some of their family members yesterday
celebrated the 48th birthday of Fernando González,
one of the five Cubans incarcerated in U.S jails.
for defending their country from terrorism.
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U.S. authorities
still not allowing Gerardo Hernández access to
appeal documents
August
12,
2011
GERARDO Hernández, one of the Cuban Five
incarcerated in the United States, remains a victim
of arbitrary treatment on the part of U.S.
authorities, who are not allowing him access to
legal documents related to his case.
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National
Assembly agreement
on the Five
August
3,
2011
FOR
many people, the summer period is one of vacations.
However, we must intensify, and right now, our
systematic and consistent work to put into practice
the agreements of the 6th Congress of the Communist
Party and the decisions of this Assembly and
government to update and improve Cuban socialism.
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Solidarity with the
Five over the airwaves
June
19,
2011
PORT-AU-PRINCE. – Haitian journalist Jean Gary
Apollon is well-known in his country as a result of
his popular radio program Sabor Latino, broadcast
Radio Signal FM 90.5, one of the most important
stations in the country, located in Pétion-Ville,
just outside of Port-au-Prince. The program is
presented as a bridge of friendship and integration
among Latin American countries and supports just
causes around the world.
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Forbidden heroes,
new
Ricardo Alarcón book on the case of the Cuban Five
June
15,
2011
LOS
heroes prohibidos (The Forbidden Heroes,) a book
which brings together 16 articles written by the
President of Cuba’s National Assembly, Ricardo
Alarcón de Quesada and first published in the
magazine CounterPunch, was launched July 13,
in the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists’ Villena
Hall, with relatives of the Cuban Five anti-terrorists
held in U.S. prisons in attendance, along with a
significant number of intellectuals and the general
public.
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Case of
the Five censored in U.S.
media
June
24,
2011
WASHINGTON,
June 23.— The International Committee for the
Freedom of the Cuban 5 today gave an example of U.S.
media censorship in relation to the case of the
Cuban anti-terrorists incarcerated in the United
States.
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Message from the
Five
June
18,
2011
Dear compañero Hugo Chávez:
The news of your medical condition has reached
our cells in the belly of the empire.
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3RD INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SOLIDARITY WITH THE FIVE
CONFERENCE
"We
have to bore through the wall
of silence"
June
17,
2011
RICARDO Alarcón de Quesada, president of the Cuban
National Assembly of People's Power, concluded his
speech to 180-plus delegates from 33 nations taking
part in the 3rd International Youth Solidarity
Conference with a call to bore through the wall of
silence constructed around the case of the five
Cuban anti-terrorists.
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Gerardo’s
cartoons in Maryland
May 18,
2011
WASHINGTON, May 16.— The CASA which
for years provided shelter in Washington, D.C. for
Central Americans persecuted in their countries of
origin, has opened its doors to the imagination of a
man incarcerated outside of his own homeland.
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Death of Leonard
Weinglass, exceptional fighter for the Cuba Five
March
24,
2011
U.S. attorney Leonard Weinglass, legal
representative for Antonio Guerrero and untiring
fighter for the cause of the Cuban Five, died
yesterday in New York, sources close to him
confirmed.
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The Cuban Five
congratulate
women of the world
March
9,
2011
THE five Cuban anti-terrorist
fighters unjustly incarcerated in U.S. prisons since
1998 congratulated the women of Cuba and the world,
on the occasion of International Women’s Day,
according to Prensa Latina.
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Billboard to the Five in
downtown Miami
January.12.10
MIAMI, January 11.—Right in the heart of Miami, on
Northwest 37th Avenue and 4th
Street, facing the entrance to the Flagler Dog
Track, a billboard appeared today with portraits of
the five Cuban anti-terrorists unjustly incarcerated
on U.S. jails: Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero,
Fernando González, Ramón Labañino and René González.
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Obama can and
should restore justice
November
27, 2010
HOLGUIN.—
U.S. President Barack Obama must order the immediate
and unconditional release of the Cuban anti-terrorist
fighters who are still unjustly incarcerated in that
nation, affirmed Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada,
president of the National Assembly of People’s Power,
in a message sent to the 300-plus participants in
the 6th International Conference for the release of
the Five and against terrorism.
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International
intellectuals and artists sign the U.S.
actors’
petition to release the Cuban Five
September
27, 2010
TWELVE years have passed since Antonio Guerrero,
Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino
and René González were imprisoned in U.S.
penitentiaries for defending Cuba against acts of
terrorism organized in that country and perpetrated
against the island.
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Chávez
challenges CNN to interview the Five
September
17, 2010
CARACAS, September 16.—President
Hugo Chávez of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
has called on the CNN television network to give a
demonstration of impartiality by interviewing the
Cuban Five, whom the channel calls "terrorists,"
leaving aside imperial manipulation.
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Freeing the Five
would also bring justice to the U.S. people
September
17, 2010
ONVINCED that the U.S. president
could make a contribution to respecting the ideals
of justice of his own compatriots if he decided, as
is in his power, to release the five Cuban anti-terrorist
fighters, the popular and award-winning actors Sean
Penn and Benicio del Toro expressed this Thursday
their support for an initiative from their U.S.
colleagues demanding an end to the unjust
imprisonment of Gerardo, Antonio, Ramón, Fernando
and René.
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To the Parliaments
and peoples
of the world
September
13, 2010
This September 12, 2010 marks 12
years of unjust confinement in U.S. prisons for
Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar,
Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Fernando González Llort
and René González Sehwerert.
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Dominican Senate
calls on Obama to free the Five
September
10, 2010
SANTO DOMINGO, September 9.— The Senate of the
Dominican Republic has passed a resolution calling
on U.S. President Barack Obama to release the five
Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in
that country after being handed down lengthy
sentences.
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Visiting Gerardo in
prison
August 20, 2010
FROM the Ontario California airport some 60 miles
east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on
Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with
expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb
and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San
Bernadino National Forests meet.
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It is very unjust
that the Five are still prisoners
August
17. 2010
CALIFORNIA, August 16.—A few hours before the
merited tribute for her 80th birthday, Dolores
Huerta, the well-known civil rights activist, was
asked about the possibilities of release for the
five Cuban anti-terrorists unjustly incarcerated in
the United States.
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Protest at Gerardo’s
confinement in the hole
June
29,
2010
RICARDO Alarcón, president of the
National Assembly of People’s Power, has condemned
the new solitary confinement punishment of Gerardo
Hernández Nordelo, one of the five anti-terrorist
Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States.
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Silvio calls for freedom for the Five
a few blocks from the White House
June
23,
2010
WASHINGTON.—Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez
captured his audience in this capital in a concert
last weekend in the DAR Constitution Hall, a few
blocks from the White House, Notimex reports.
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Correa emphasizes
that the Cuban Five are political prisoners
June 14,
2010
QUITO.— Ecuadorian President Rafael
Correa has criticized the imprisonment of the five
Cubans arrested for preventing terrorist attacks in
Miami as an attack on their human rights.
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Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate,
fighting for the five
Such cruelty is unacceptable
February 18. 2010
SOUTH
African Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Prize for
Literature, read out letter to President Obama
calling for the release of the five Cuban heroes.
Gordimer is in our country as an invited guest to
the 19th Havana Book Fair.
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Cuban Five send
message
to the Haitian people
January.20.10
THE Cuban Five, held as political prisoners in
the United States for fighting terrorism, have sent
a message of encouragement and hope to the Haitian
people, devastated by a powerful earthquake.
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