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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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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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ADDRESS OF PRISONERS

ANTONIO
GUERRERO
RODRÍGUEZ

FERNANDO
GONZÁLEZ
LLORT

GERARDO
HERNÁNDEZ
NORDELO

RAMÓN
LABAÑINO
SALAZAR

RENÉ
GONZÁLEZ
SEHWERERT

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