• Cuban Five Case to go to U.S. Supreme Court
December 26. 2008
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 — The appeal of the Cuban Five, the anti-terrorist fighters held as political prisoners in the United States, is to be brought before the Supreme Court before January 30, according to one of their defense lawyers.

• Atlanta Court rejects appeal of Cuban Five anti-terrorist case
September 5, 2008
THE 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on September 2 denied the defense’s request for a hearing to reconsider the case of the five anti-terrorist Cubans, who will have spent a decade of illegal incarceration in the United States on September 12.

• Atlanta Court denied appeal in the case of the Cuban Five
September 5, 2008
We have just received the information that on September 2, 2008 the Atlanta  Court of Appeals denied our reconsideration request presented regarding our five compañeros imprisoned in the United States.

• Freedom for the Five, yes; new trial, no
August 11, 2008
 • “CALLING for the release of the five Cubans incarcerated in the United States for combating terrorism, and not allowing a new trial is the only just demand in this case,” emphasized Roberto González, the brother of one of the anti-terrorist prisoners, during a meeting with members of the 15th Latin American and Caribbean Work Brigade in solidarity with Cuba.

• Alarcón on the “Roundtable” program
We have to keep up the fight for the release of the Five
August 5, 2008
THE battle for the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, political prisoners in the United States, continues to be active in order to inform people of the truth about a case in which the U.S. government and authorities involved in it have perverted the course of justice, affirmed Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (Cuban Parliament).

• U.S. definitively denies visa to Olga Salanueva, wife of one of the Cuban Five
July 23, 2008
For the ninth time, and now permanently, the U.S. government has denied a visa to Olga Salanueva, wife of Cuban patriot René González, one of the five anti-terrorist fighters serving prison sentences in that country.

• The release of the Five must be a political decision
July 17, 2008
“THE question of the Five is a question of Cuba that goes beyond us as a family; it is a question of the Revolution and it is a subject for Cuban revolutionaries, together with the solidarity of men and women of goodwill,” said attorney Roberto González, speaking to members of the U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan who traveled to the island to show their opposition to the U.S. blockade and their support for freedom for the anti-terrorist fighters.

• Parliamentarians from continent call for freedom for the Five
July 8, 2008
IN Panama, parliamentarians from 15 Latin American and Caribbean nations called on the U.S. government yesterday to immediately release the five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in that country since 1998.

• Message from Gerardo
We are going to resist until justice is done
June 6, 2008
AFTER learning of the decision of the Appeals Court in Atlanta to uphold his sentence of a double life term plus 15 years, Gerardo Hernández spoke on the phone with Alicia Jrapko, and this is the message that the activist transmitted to us:
Gerardo has just called me, he already knew about the court’s decision.
- Press release responding to Atlanta Appeals Court ruling

• 11th Circuit Court upholds convictions  of the Five
June 5, 2008
A Federal Appeals Court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of the five Cuban anti-terrorists incarcerated in the United States since 1998, while vacating the sentences of three of them, who are to be re-sentenced in Miami, the only place they never should have been or should be tried.

• I did it for the Five, too
"I just did what any Cuban can do very easily as a result of having been born here; I have voted according to my conscience, and even though it is a secret vote, I will say openly that I voted for everyone," said Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, after casting his ballot in Polling Station No. 2 in Voting District No. 76 in Havana’s La Rampa neighborhood.

• The case of the Five: where did it start and where is it going?
THE best way of understanding the appeal process in the case of the five Cubans unjustly incarcerated in U.S. prisons might well be a chronological account of the most significant events from the beginning.

• International Commission supports visitation rights for wives of Cuban Five
December 12. 2007
MORE than 100 prominent individuals from 27 countries, among them Nobel Peace laureates Adolfo Pérez Esquivel of Argentina and Rigoberta Mechú of Guatemala, as well as actor Danny Glover and writer Alice Walker from the United States, are members of the International Commission for Family Visitation Rights, supporting Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez, wives of René González and Gerardo Hernández respectively, two of the Five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the United States for nine years.

• U.S. National Lawyers Guild calls for investigation into the case of the Five
November 23. 2007
A resolution in support of the five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the United States was approved by the U.S. National Lawyers Guild at its 70th convention.

• Eyewitness Atlanta
In pursuit of justice for the Cuban 5, a group that warned the US about terrorist plots and ended up in prison for life
October 24. 2007
On June 17, 1998, an unprecedented meeting took place in Havana between the Cuban government and the FBI. Seeking an end to the 40-year campaign of terrorism inflicted upon their island nation, the government of Cuba presented the FBI with the results of its investigation into right-wing Cuban exile groups based in Miami.

• Correct proceedings by Cuban anti-terrorists’ defense team
October 22. 2007
HAVANA, August 28 (PL).—The handling of the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorists continues to receive recognition by members of the international legal community after the hearing in the Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

• The world supports freedom for the Cuban Five
October 21. 2007
ALMOST everyone has heard at some point that justice is blind; in fact, that is how it is depicted. Certainly, justice should be blind in the sense that it should be supremely impartial. But the truth is not blind. The world is beginning to learn what has happened to the Cuban Five. One would have to be really blind not to see the truth that is so evident.

• Jurists present case of the Cuban Five in Italian Chamber of Deputies
October 1. 2007
ROME (SE).—The dining hall of the Italian Chamber of Deputies was the setting for a seminar on the Cuban Five, the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States: “A Case of Injustice ‘Made in the USA,’ Legal Aspects.”

• Correct proceedings by Cuban anti-terrorists’ defense team
August 28. 2007
HAVANA, August 28 (PL).—The handling of the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorists continues to receive recognition by members of the international legal community after the hearing in the Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

• Reflections of President Fidel Castro
The empire tastes an unprecedented moral defeat
August 23. 2007
THE words of Roberto González, a lawyer born to a Cuban family that fled to the United States during the dictatorship and returned to Cuba following the triumph of the Revolution, come to mind as I begin to reflect on this issue. Like René, he was born in the United States during his family’s sojourn there. He has been fighting tirelessly to obtain the release of his brother René, who endures cruel and unjust imprisonment, as do four other heroes who sought to defend their country in the struggle against terrorism.

• At the Appeals Court in Atlanta
Five’s defense team exposes errors and intimidation of the jury during the Miami trial
August 21. 2007
ON August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States.

• The cause of the five Cuban anti-terrorists returns to court in Atlanta
August 20. 2007
HAVANA, August 20 (PL).— The defense of the five Cuban anti-terrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States will present arguments today demonstrating anomalies in the prosecution’s manipulation of the legal proceedings leading to the conviction of the Five.

• The New York Times and the Five
“The judge threw the book at them”
August 17. 2007
JUST 15 days before the hearing to consider the case of the Five in the Court of Appeals in Atlanta, The New York Times finally decided to breach the wall of silence surrounding the issue and publish an article which, among other things, describes the totally out-of-proportion sentences handed down by the Miami judge against the Cuban men who infiltrated the Cuban-American mafia.

• “TOÑIN” LLAMA CONFIRMS IT
The attacks in Havana were planned in Miami
May 3. 2007
JOSE Antonio “Toñin” Llama, the Cuban-American National Foundation leader who made headlines months ago when he revealed how he was cheated after investing millions in an anti-Cuba terrorist conspiracy, has just confirmed to The Miami Herald that he participated in meetings of Miami groups where plans were made for the bombing attacks that occurred in Havana throughout 1997.

• ALARCON TALKS ABOUT THE FIVE ON MSNBC
Even the judge complained!
September 7, 2006
"HOW could they pretend that it was possible to bring together an objective and impartial jury in Miami when even the judge complained of inappropriate behavior?" asked Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament in an interview granted to the U.S. TV channel MSNBC.

• Injustice against the Five and impunity for terrorismo
August 23, 2006
GERARDO, Ramón, René, Fernando and Antonio are still behind bars in the United States, three of them in maximum security prisons, and all of them subjected to the hateful revenge of those in Washington who have made them the target of reprisals against the Cuban Revolution.

• Terrorist conspiracies could help case of the Five
August 22, 2006
THE most recent revelations about conspiracies by anti-Cuban counterrevolutionary groups in the United States could help the case of the Cuban Five, according to a U.S. newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.

• Brazilian lawyers study lawsuit to free the Five
August 18, 2006
BRASILIA, August 18 (PL).— Efforts to free the five Cuban heroes imprisoned in the United States acquired fresh impetus today with support from the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) of the Brazilian Order of Attorneys (OAB).

• Cuban Parliament calls for redoubling the struggle to free the Five
August 17, 2006
THE International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba has condemned the decision adopted by the Atlanta Court of Appeals against the five Cubans who remain imprisoned in the United States for fighting against terrorism.

• The court ignored the anti-Cuban hostility that reigns in Miami
August 11, 2006
"THIS decision is not the end of the case," emphasized attorney Leonard Weinglass of the United States, commenting on a ruling by the Court of Appeals in Atlanta revoking a favorable decision for the Five by a three-judge panel from that same court that had acknowledged the hostile environment in Miami where the trial was held and ordering a new trial.

• ALARCON ON THE ATLANTA APPEALS COURT
Judge Wilson won’t be a bomb victim in Miami
August 11, 2006
JUDGE Wilson must “feel very satisfied at this moment” because “he knows that he would be the last person targeted for a bomb attack in Miami,” commented Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly, in a special edition of the “Informative Roundtable” on Cuban television regarding the decision of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta.

• Unprecedented Atlanta decision
August 9, 2006
JUST one year after the decision of a panel of three judges in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, who unanimously overturned the Miami trial of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters and annulled the sentences handed down, the plenary of that judicial instance has just announced its decision on a reconsideration of the finding of August 9, 2005.

• "These judges could not ignore the truth"
August 8, 2006
LAST year's decision by a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturning a Miami court ruling against the Cuban Five was "historic" and "necessary," commented California Lawyer Ian Thompson who represented the US National Lawyers Guild at the oral hearing of the case in March 2004.

• Former Democratic congressman visits one of the Five in prison
June 29, 2006
WORLD DATA SERVICE.— Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Esteban Torres went to the federal prison in Victorville, California to visit Gerardo Hernández, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on whose behalf an international campaign is being waged for their freedom.

• Cubans Jailed in U.S. as Spies Are Hailed at Home as Heroes
June 5, 2006
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, June 3, 2006; A01
HAVANA -- European tourists here send home postcards with stamps bearing the images of five faces, known simply as los muchachos (the young men) or los cinco (the five). The faces, usually surrounded by billowing Cuban flags, stare out, larger than life, from factory walls, apartment buildings, billboards.

• THE FIVE
Alarcón: “The Court has no alternative but to annul ‘Charge 3’ against Gerardo”
March 30, 2006
THE Court of Appeals in Atlanta has no alternative but to annul Charge No. 3 in the case of Gerardo Hernández, because the prosecution itself admitted before that same court that the available evidence was insufficient to convict him, affirmed Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban Parliament.

• Prosecution has hard time responding to judges’ concerns
February 20, 2006
YESTERDAY Atlanta was in the sights of everyone in the world fighting for the cause of our five compatriots. It was the day of the hearing in which the prosecution and the defense to put their arguments to the plenary of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after the unusual request by the U.S. government to reconsider the August ruling by three of the Appeal Court judges ordering a retrial in a different venue.

• Amnesty International raise "urgent concerns" with the US over treatment of five Cuban prisoners*
February 6, 2006
Five Cuban men held in the US for the past 7 years on various charges of espionage were denied a "fair and impartial" trial according to a letter from Amnesty International made public today.

• Lawyers for the Five demand their release
December 26, 2005
THE lawyers of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for combating terrorism have insisted on their clients’ innocence and called for their immediate release.

• Visas in suspense for family members of the Five
Why protract justice and obviate rights?
November 16, 2005
NEITHER yes or no. Just waiting, drawing out a response. Something that has become a habit in these lengthy judicial – and political – proceedings underway in the United States against René, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando and Ramón.

• Visa delay for wife of Cuban anti-terrorist
November 10, 2005
THE U.S. Interests Section (USIS) in Havana has postponed granting a visa to Olga Salanueva, the wife of René González, one of the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned by Washington for combating terrorism.

• Court of Appeals to review ruling on the Five
November 1, 2005
THE 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has agreed to review an appeal by the U.S. Attorney in Miami on the ruling annulling the convictions of five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States for fighting against terrorism.

• For the Five, a political sentence
October 10, 2005
SPEAKING in Havana a few months ago Leonard Weinglass, the New York lawyer of Antonio Labañino, emphasized how his client didn’t even touch a single page of any secret document, but nevertheless has been handed down the same life sentence as the two most famous spies in recent U.S. history, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen¼ with the difference that those two individuals had taken thousands of documents from the files of the institutions in which they held high-level positions.

• DISGRACE IN EL PASO
Revenge in Miami
September 29, 2005
Two days ago, in El Paso, Texas, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the expeditious decision by Judge William L. Abbott not to deport terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela or Cuba, arguing that he was at risk of being tortured in either nation, and resorting in a manipulative way to the exemptions provided for by the International Convention Against Torture.

• Miami prosecutors ask for reconsideration of Atlanta court ruling
September 29, 2005
MIAMI (USA), September 28—Federal prosecutors in Florida’s southern district have asked the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the decision overturning the arbitrary and illegal trial of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in 2001 in Miami.

• Violations of family law in the case of the Five
September 16, 2005
THE 6th Ibero-American Conference on the Family yesterday devoted a special session to detailing the obstacles placed in the way of family visits to René, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando and Ramón, political prisoners in the United States for seven years.

• Nothing justifies their imprisonment
September 13, 2005
"THE kidnapping needs to end now. If they want to appeal, let them appeal. If they want another trial, fine, but with the Five set free," affirmed Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power.

• Illegal kidnapping of the Five in the United States
September 2, 2005
Cuban deputies have passed a declaration stating that the incarceration of the five Cuban heroes is an illegal kidnapping and that the US government, which never should have arrested them, has the moral, political and legal obligation to immediately and unconditionally release them.