[NYTr] Cuban 5 Case Being Watched by the World

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Cuban 5 Case Being Watched by the World

Havana, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) The struggle for releasing five Cuban
anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States since 1998
is an affair of those who in the world support fair causes, Mexican
journalist Maria de la Luz stated Tuesday.

In exclusive report to Prensa Latina, De la Luz termed terrible the
situation of confinement by Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio
Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez.

Paraphrasing the popular proverb "silence gives consent," she called to
break the silence on the Cuban Five, because it is a question of
dignity to denounce such injustice.

The journalist, resident in the Mexican city of Monterrey, said that
the Five's imprisonment is another US aggression against the Cuban
Revolution and highlighted the island's strength faced with Washington
maneuvers.

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Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Five

Havana, Aug 14 (Prensa Latina) Outstanding Dominican attorney Alfonso
Torres proposed The Five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters, unfairly
imprisoned in the United States, for the Nobel Peace, in an article
published in Havana Tuesday.

The Cuban Five deserve freedom and must be compensated by the
oppressing State (United States), states the also president of the
American Association of Jurists.

In today's Granma online edition, Torres notes that the oppressing
State has also violated the Five's most elemental rights, causing
physical and psychic damage to them and their relatives.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and
Fernando Gonzalez, universally known as The Five, are currently serving
long sentences for fighting terrorism against Cuba.

They and their defense attorneys are sustaining an arduous legal battle
to dismantle charges attributed to them by the US government.

Their next hearing will be August 20 at the Court of Appeals 11th
Circuit in Atlanta.

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