International Solidarity with Cuban Five Needed Now more than Ever

Havana, Feb 5, (RHC).- Relatives of the Five Cubans incarcerated in the United States for preventing terrorists actions being carried out against Cuba said Thursday in Havana that international solidarity for their release is needed now more than ever.

Antonio Guerrero’s mother Mirta Rodriguez and the mother of Fernando Gonzalez Magali Llort told the nearly 270 people who came as part of the Voluntary Work South American Brigade, which arrived on January 24th and leaving next Sunday, that this year is of great significance in the struggle for the release of these men internationally known as the Cuban Five.

In view of the imminent exhaustion of appeals in this case, defence lawyers say they would have to resort to a writ of habeas corpus, which they plan to present in June, and they say that only international solidarity will be able to achieve the release of these five men.

For more than 11 years now, Antonio and Fernando, as well as Gerardo Hernandez, Ramón Labañino and Rene Gonzalez, are serving harsh and unjust sentences, as a consequence of a biased trial that ended in 2001, held in Miami, Florida, where the terrorist groups they infiltrated operate.