•
Weinglass
demonstrates that Antonio’s sentence is cruelly
unjust
May
14,
2003
The DA’s Office
has acknowledged that none of the five Cubans imprisoned in
the United States on false espionage charges handled any
information that was classified or linked to the U.S. national
defense.
•
United
States denies visas to the wives of Gerardo and René for the
third time
May
13,
2003
WHILE the United States is
referring to itself as the universal judge and launching its
anti-terrorist crusade, five Cubans are suffering the weight
of grossly unjust sentences in the United States for saving
Cuba from potential terror.
•
Antonio
Guerrero’s appeal lodged at Atlanta Court
May
7,
2003
ONE
month after the appeals of four of the five Cuban
prisoners of the U.S. empire were lodged at the
Atlanta Court, Leonard Weinglass has presented that
of Antonio Guerrero, after requesting more time due to limited
contact with his client.
•
Lawyers
await justice for the Five in Atlanta Court
April
22, 2003
IN Havana, experts
and lawyers expressed their hopes that the Atlanta
Court of Appeals in Georgia would deliver a just
decision in the case of the five Cuban prisoners in
the United States, sentenced to unjust prison terms
by a Miami federal court.
•
Gerardo
will pay for protecting his people from terrorism
with two life sentences and 18 years
April
11, 2003
In this shameful trial the prosecution succeeded in
having the jury be guided by emotions and
prejudices, more than facts and laws, thus
transforming it into an eminently political trial,
in which bits of evidence were manipulated and the
essence of it ignored.
•
A
tremendous man
April
8, 2003
IGNORANCE,
stupidity and hatred were laid bare throughout the
days and weeks of this trial, like some incurable
disease, and they anticipated the cold, the high
security bolts and premeditated cruelty; everything
closed off without leaving even the tiniest gap for
justice. Decency, decorum and truth definitely had
no chance of prevailing in this trial.
•
Gerardo
Hernández’ lawyer lodges appeal
April
5, 2003
GERARDO
Hernández’ lawyer, U.S. Paul Mckenna, has lodged
an appeal with the Atlanta Circuit Court asking for
a retrial for his client.
•
Weinglass:
It was the Solidarity Movement that Brought the Five
out of Solitary Confinement
April
3, 2003
By
Bernie Dwyer
April 1st, 2003
The Cuban Five have been released from solitary confinement in
the different US prisons where they are serving extremely long
sentences for defending their country against terrorism.
•
Defendant
Guerrero's unopposed motion for extension of time to
file initial brief
March
29, 2003
DEFENDANT
GUERRERO'S UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO
FILE INITIAL BRIEF
The Defendant-Appellant, Antonio Guerrero, through undersigned
counsel and pursuant to 11th Cir. Rule 31-2, respectfully
requests a thirty (30) d ay extension of time in which to file
Appellant's initial brief, which is currently due on or before
April 7th, 2003. Appellant's unopposed motion is based
on the following grounds:
•
Appeals
Court notified of obstacles to Five’s defense
ON March 26,
Leonard Weinglass, Antonio Guerrero’s lawyer filed a motion
before the Atlanta Appeals Court explaining the obstacles
placed in his way as a defense attorney to maintain contact
with his client, who has been in solitary confinement (the
hole) since March 3, according to the web page http://www.antiterroristas.cu
.
•
GERARDO HERNANDEZ NORDELO
And
the revenge of those who cannot break him
TIME, as it has
been said on many occasions, is implacable. As children, we
are hardly aware of it; we don’t even know if it exists, but
it passes and leaves behind lessons or regrets. It is
unstoppable and stubborn, it moves ahead however much we hurry
but, in the end, we have to admit that it teaches us without
concessions to know our own capacity for resistance or giving
in, winning or losing.
•
Condemnation
of further violations against Gerardo
RICARDO Alarcón,
president of the National Assembly of People’s Power,
yesterday condemned the worsening – without due cause or
justification – of human rights violations against the five
Cuban patriots currently imprisoned in the United States, and
against those of their lawyers; violations that have now
reached a scandalous and shameful level.
•
To
conceal the bad faith of the federal prosecution and Miami
judge
OBSTRUCTING the
work of the defense in relation to the appeals process at the
Atlanta 11th Circuit Court, scheduled to begin on April 7;
building a wall of silence to balance a growing international
solidarity movement; and covering up the federal prosecutor
and the Miami judge’s unjustifiable errors are all motives
for the Five’s current solitary confinement.
•
Cuban
Five Are Placed in Solitary Confinement Without Explanation
March 7th, 2003
The newly re-elected President of the Cuban National Assembly,
Ricardo Alarcón, has condemned further abuses against the
five Cuban political prisoners in the United States.
•
Cuba
charges the United States with violating the Five’s rights
GERARDO Hernández,
Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René
González have been placed in solitary confinement since
February 28, locked up all day with no contact with the other
prisoners or the outside world.
•
A
lost opportunity to right injustice
LEONARD
Weinglass, defense attorney for Antonio Guerrero, one of the
Five Cubans imprisoned in the United States, considered Judge
Lenard’s denial of the motion presented by the Five’s
defense team as a lost opportunity to right the tremendous
injustice against his client.
•
FLORIDA JUSTICE
Discount
for terrorists
IF you’re on
trial in South Florida then you’re better off being a
terrorist. This disquieting assertion has once again proved to
be true: very recently an obliging judge (or was he simply
corrupt) gave infamous terrorist Antonio "Tony"
Calatayud — indicted on massive fraud charges — 75% off
the sum set for his bail.
•
Ricardo Alarcón talks of
the U.S. latest
legal decisions on the Five
They
are trying to do the same in Atlanta as they did in Miami
THE recent
decisions by South Florida district judge Joan Lenard have
closed two legal channels in the attempt to secure justice for
the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for
anti-terrorist activities. Now the appeal remains; it is due
to take place on April 7 at the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta,
where the lawyers will present their briefs.
•
Judge
Lenard rejects the Five’s request for new trial
SOUTH Florida
district judge Joan Lenard has denied the request for a new
trial that was presented by Leonard Weinglass, lawyer for
Antonio Guerrero The request was based on evidence
demonstrating that numerous irregularities and violations
occurred in the Miami trial of the five Cubans imprisoned in
the United States since 1998, reads the www.antiterroristas.cu
website.
•
Response
to motion for retrial still pending
LEONARD
Weinglass, the U.S. attorney representing Antonio Guererro,
spoke with Antiterroristas.cu on Friday, January 17 in Havana,
where he spent a week reviewing the case of his client with
Cuban legal experts.
•
A
case that cannot be kept in the dark
EXPERIENCED U.S. lawyer
Leonard Weinglass knows exactly why the U.S. government is
doing everything it can so that the mainstream media maintains
a silence on everything related to the five imprisoned Cubans.
In his words: this case cannot be kept in the dark.
•
Agreement
signed for new EU office in Havana
THE European
Union and Cuba have signed an agreement to open an EU office
in Havana with the aim of coordinating cooperation efforts and
political and economic relations between the two parties.
•
Evidence
on Miami trial errors presented
DESCRIBING
himself as "a very proud American", Paul McKenna,
U.S. lawyer for Gerardo Hernández, affirmed at a lawyers’
conference in Havana: "It’s been an honor to represent
my client.
• Retrial
application for the Five
ON the same day
that the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned the U.S.
blockade of Cuba — November 12, 2002 — an application for
a retrial for the five Cubans imprisoned for fighting
terrorism was placed before the Southern Florida District
Court.
•
LETTER
ON THE FIVE IN THE U.S. PRESS
On August 19, the
newspaper Asbury Park Press published a letter from one
of its readers titled "Five Cuban anti-terrorists."
The author is a U.S. citizen named Allen Strasburger, and his
letter is reproduced here:
•
Never
any evidence that the five Cuban patriots planned any harm to
the United States
NO evidence was really ever presented during the trial that
would indicate that the objective of the Cuban government or
of these men (the five Cubans) was to inflict damage on the
United States, affirmed Paul McKenna, ...
•
U.S.
authorities delay Miami Five appeal
June
5,
2002
SIX months after
the controversial trial in the United States, which ended in
tough sentences for five Cubans, their appeal still has not
been sent to the Atlanta Court of Appeals.
•
Miami
Five’s trial: a gigantic apparatus of complicity and
corruption
May
3,
2002
WHAT five
Cubans did in Miami — risking their lives to carry out
heroic work, to counteract criminal terrorist plans – was of
no interest to Judge Joan Lenard, even though those plans were
already on record within the U.S. government.
• Horror
behind bars
April
16, 2002
THE cells
measure 2.3 by 3.3 meters and are designed so that inmates
cannot see each other. They remain in this small space for 23
hours of the day and during the hour of exercise they are tied
up in shackles. |
