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More
arbitrary acts against the Five
Dezember
24,
2003
WE must redouble our
efforts in order to increase and effectively activate
international solidarity with the five young Cubans sentenced to
cruel and unjust prison terms in the United States for battling
against systematic acts of terrorism against our people,"
affirmed Ricardo Alarcón in a meeting with National Assembly
deputies.
• GERARDO HERNANDEZ
Life sentence even though
the District Attorney acknowledges lack of evidence
October
14, 2003
GERARDO Hernández, one of the Miami Five, was sentenced
to life imprisonment by virtue of a charge linking him to the
shooting-down of two light aircraft, even though the District
Attorney’s office acknowledged that there was no evidence
whatsoever - to the point of asking the Appeals Court in Atlanta
to drop the charge.
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The order to
arrest the Five came
from the
White House
October
17, 2003
SPEAKING on behalf of President George W. Bush,
Condoleezza Rice, U.S. national security advisor, has openly
admitted that the order to arrest the Cuban patriots who
infiltrated Cuban-American terrorist groups in Miami was given
by the White House in the framework of a series of measures
taken to appease leaders of the Miami community.
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Five years of struggle for
justice
September
29, 2003
FIVE years after the detention in the United States of Fernando
González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, René González and
Gerardo Hernández on September 12, 1998, the case of the five
Cuban prisoners of the U.S. empire is following its protracted
course in legal proceedings, while new voices of solidarity from
various parts of the world are complementing the struggle of the
Cuban people for truth and justice to prevail.
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Appeal is issued demanding visas for wives of Cuban militants in
U.S. prisons
July
24, 2003
"We are
urgently requesting your support to help win the right of Olga
Salanueva, wife of René González, and Adriana Pérez, wife of
Gerardo Hernández, to enter the United States for the purpose of
visiting their husbands, who, as you know, ...
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Five’s case in violation of international
regulations
July
15, 2003
IN the case of the five Cuban
patriots (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, René González,
Ramón Labañino and Fernando González) their human rights are
still being violated. The men received long and unjust prison
sentences for having acted against Miami terrorists and in
defense of the U.S. people.
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GERARDO HERNÁNDEZ
Double life for fighting
terrorism
July
7, 2003
On May 3,the President of the Friends of Cuba Society in South
Africa, Father Michael Lapsley, spent three and a half hours
visiting one of the five Cuban political prisoners languishing
in United States prisons.
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ILL-TREATMENT
OF THE FIVE
Weinglass: the order
came from Washington
July
7, 2003
Who gave the order to isolate the Five in the
“holes” of their respective prisons all of a sudden and a few
weeks prior to the presentation of their appeals – at a time
when they needed to consult with their defense lawyers more than
ever? As U.S. lawyer Leonard Weinglass revealed in a press
conference in Washington, “the order came from Washington.”
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Study Finds Thousands of
Cases Of Misconduct by US Prosecutors
July
2, 2003
Associated Press
June 25, 2003
WASHINGTON -- State and local prosecutors stretched, bent or
broke rules so badly in more than 2,000 cases since 1970 that
appellate judges dismissed criminal charges, reversed
convictions or reduced sentences, according to the first
national study of prosecutorial misconduct.
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Gerardo and René’s relatives are still
being denied visas
May
26,
2003
THE wives of Gerardo Hernández
Nordelo and René González, two Cuban political prisoners jailed
in the United States for combating terrorism, have still not
received visas for conjugal visits. René’s youngest daughter
Ivette González, just five years old, is likewise being punished
in this context.
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It has a name: fascism
May
22, 2003
THERE are really very few ways to
describe the "special" conditions reserved for the five Cubans
who have been prisoners of the empire since September 1998.
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Atlanta Appeals Court rejects report presented by Eric Luna of
the University of Utah
May
16,
2003
THE U.S. 11th Circuit Court of
Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, hast just rejected (May 8) a motion
of leave to file a report in favor of the five Cuban patriots
presented by Professor Eric Luna of the University of Utah,
according to the Antiterrorista.cu website on Thursday. |
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