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‘We
will be able to withstand anything’
February
8, 2002
IN harsh and
humiliating conditions, shackled, handcuffed, unprotected from
the cold and without receiving any food or water for more than
12 hours, the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States have
been transferred to maximum-security prisons in various parts of
that country.
•
U.S.
prevents Gerardo Hernández’ wife from visiting him in prison
DESPITE having a
visa to enter the country, the U.S. authorities have prevented
the wife of Gerardo Hernández – one of the five Cubans
serving unjustified sentences – from reaching California’s
Lompoc prison to visit him.
•
Another
vengeful sentence in Miami
December
28, 2001
HE life sentence
plus two additional verdicts of five years and eight months,
handed down to Antonio Guerrero by the Miami Federal Court on
December 27, is not just irrational but completely unjust and
confirms the vengeful aspect of the rigged trial.
• For
Miami, a formidable lesson in dignity
December
20,
2001
IN the last
few days, the Miami terrorist mafia have had the opportunity to
see up close something they will never see in their own ranks:
the indefatigable fighting spirit and the marvelous integrity,
...
• Another
life sentence for fighting terrorism
December
12,
2001
CUBAN Ramón
Labańino was sentenced Thursday, December 13 to life
imprisonment at a rigged trial in Miami, in a further
demonstration of the injustice denounced by the accused himself
in his plea.
• Brutal
sentences for the five Cubans in Miami
December
12,
2001
Two life
sentences plus 15 years was the sentence issued this Wednesday
for Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, after having been declared
guilty on June 8 by a manipulated, biased and disinformed jury,
and under terrible pressure exerted by U.S. authorities, the
anti-Cuba mafia and the mass media.
• No
sign of justice at Cubans’ sentencing hearing in Miami
December
12,
2001
IN an
atmosphere charged with hostility and mercilessness, without the
slightest sign of justice, the sentencing hearing for Cuban
Gerardo Hernández began on Tuesday and continues today, because
the ruling on one of the various defense motions presented is
still pending.
• Cuba
awaits visas for relatives of Miami prisoners
December
6,
2001
CUBA has applied to
the United States for travel visas for the family members of the
five Cubans detained in Miami on trumped-up espionage charges.
• Irregularities
of the Miami trial of five Cubans are denounced in Havana
August
23, 2001
DOCTOR of Legal
Sciences Rodolfo Dávalos, a professor at the University of
Havana, stated during a televised roundtable discussion on June
25 that trying five Cubans in Miami, a community biased by the
interests of the anti-Cuba mafia, was a violation of the Sixth
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
• Return
to solitary confinement runs counter to UN declarations and U.S.
Constitution
August
23, 2001
THE decision to send the five
Cubans on trial in Miami back to solitary confinement is a
barbarous one that violates essential UN documents, the U.S.
Constitution and the country's prison regulations.
• Miami
police investigation raises the specter of racism and corruption
of judges
August
1, 2001
AN FBI
investigation of agents in the sadly famous Miami police force
for administrative corruption and for the death of various
members of the black community in confused episodes has raised
the specter of a scandalous collusion with county judges.
• Proof
that the prosecution prepared the expert witnesses
July
4, 2001
PROOF exists that
the prosecution "prepared the expert witnesses" who
testified during the trial, stated Dr. Julio Fernández Bulté,
professor at the University of Havana School of Law, during
another roundtable on the Miami trial, ...
• Gross
and repugnant U.S. repression against the five patriots
imprisoned in U.S.
June
28, 2001
THEY’VE been sent
to the punishment cells where they were held without
communication for their first 17 months of prison.
• The
judge will be under terrible pressure
June
28, 2001
TWO days after the charges made by
President Fidel Castro, the innocence of the five patriots
unjustly detained in Miami and the certainty that they will
return to their homeland continues to gain strength, credibility
and spirit in Cuba, the United States and throughout the world.
• Illegal
actions and manipulation of the law confirms police vengeance
June
25, 2001
THE Cuban American
National Foundation mafia and the extreme U.S. right-wing
conservatives turned the trial of the five Cubans held in Miami
into a form of political vengeance, just as they did with the
Elián González case.
• Why
were only five people tried in U.S. when 10 were arrested?
June
25, 2001
A recent roundtable
discussion provided the answer to this question, which was
indispensable in understanding the jury’s statement convicting
the five Cuban patriots.
• From
The Hole, with their hearts intact
June
25, 2001
THE motive for such
cruelty, greater than that displayed to murderers, is that as
well as being five Cubans with dignity, they have not been able
to break the prisoners for the entire duration of their solitary
confinement, during which they were submitted to unprecedented
pressures, in a nation which advertises itself as a leader when
it comes to respecting human rights.
• Heroic
behavior in the entrails of the monster
June
8, 2001
Last June 8, five
fellow countrymen who in the very entrails of the monster risked
their lives daily to discover and inform on the terrorist plans
hatched against our people by the Cuban American Mafiosi under
the tolerant eye, and with the complicity, of the U.S.
authorities, were declared guilty of infamous and false charges
in a Miami court of law. |
