UN High Commissioner Meets with Wife of Geraldo Hernandez

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navenethem Pillay

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navenethem Pillay, met with Adriana Perez, wife of Gerardo Hernández, in Geneva on Monday.
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At the meeting, Adriana referred to the damage to health and the suffering of the five anti-terrorist fighters and their families caused by their 14 years unjust imprisonment. 
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Gerardo Hernendez, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero, and René González were condemned to long sentences in a rigged and arbitrary trial for warning their country of terrorist acts planned by the Miami mafia.
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In the case of Geraldo, who is serving two life sentences plus 15 years, the US government also prevents him from seeing his wife.
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Adriana Perez told the UN High Commissioner of the need for that body to directly interfere in favour of the motion requested by the defense lawyer of Rene Gonzalez, so that he be allowed to travel to Cuba to visit his brother, who is seriously ill.
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Rene Gonzalez was released on October 7, 2011, under supervision and he is banned from leaving US territory for 3 years.
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Adriana Perez also expressed the wish for reunification on behalf of the elderly mothers of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters.

(Prensa Latina)

Danny Glover on the Cuban 5

Cuba to Unveil Monument in Honour of State Terrorism Victims

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As part of the activities of the Seventh Colloquium to Free the Cuban Five a monument will be unveiled in honour of state terrorism victims, on Friday, in the town of Boca de Sama, in the eastern province of Holguin, which was attacked by mercenaries 40 years ago.

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The monument, by Luis Silva, member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in the province, is made up of three ‘gunshot’ marble rocks.  
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The artists noted that with these pieces he condemns atrocities and barbarities brought about to the Cuban people by state terrorism, which has also caused countless victims.

Victims of Cubana Flight 455 blown out
of the sky by CIA linked terrorists 

.As a result of the tragic events of 1971, when two pirate gunboats coming from Florida attacked the coastal village of Boca de Sama , in Banes municipality in the Eastern part of the island. Lidio Rivaflechas Galano and Ramon Arturo Siam Portelles died and Nancy and Angela Pavon, two sisters of 15 and 13 years of age, were wounded . The first one lost a foot. Also wounded were Carlos Escalante Gomez and Jesus Igarza Osorio.
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The attack, perpetrated by a group of mercenaries and organized by the Miami-based Alpha 66 terrorist group. 
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The unveiling ceremony is one of the main activities arranged for Friday, within the context of the Seventh Colloquium to Free the Cuban Five, underway in the province since Wednesday with the attendance of more than 300 delegates from 47 nations.
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The program also includes a women’s walk for Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, and Rene Gonzalez –internationally known as the Cuban Five –, and the screening of materials produced by different Committees of Solidarity with Cuba worldwide.

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These five Cuban antiterrorists were unjustly imprisoned in the U.S since 1998 and sentenced to harsh terms for trying to prevent terrorist actions against Cuba by Miami-based right wing groups such as the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), and Alpha 66, among others.
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Fernando, Gerardo, Antonio, and Ramon still remain in U.S. prisons for 13 years now; whereas Rene was imposed with an additional three-year “supervised release” that prevents him from returning to Cuba with his family.

US Government Hides Truth about the Cuban Five

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The president of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, said there is evidence that the US Government paid media outlets in Miami to lie as part of a smear campaign against the five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998

Addressing participants in the 12th International Congress on Pedagogy last Thursday, Alarcon noted that the US mainstream media continues to hide the truth about the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez —internationally known as The Cuban Five.

He added that their silence confirms the innocence of the Cuban antiterrorists who were arrested and given harsh and unjust sentences for monitoring extremist groups in South Florida, which were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against Cuba.

The president of the Cuban Parliament demanded the immediate release of The Five and pointed out that US President Barack Obama and his government both know they are committing “an inexcusable injustice and it is in their hands to bring back some decency to the White House.”

“The Five are our best educators,” Alarcon told the representatives from more than 20 countries who are participating in Pedagogia 2011, which concludes on Friday at Havana’s Convention Center.

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Important Revelation in El Paso

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In the trial underway in El Paso against Luis Posada Carriles for lying, a very important revelation has emerged.

In her sworn testimony January 18, 2011, an officer from the Department of Homeland Security admitted that on behalf of the DHS, she asked U.S. Attorney Caroline Heck Miller to charge Posada for his criminal activities, and Ms. Heck Miller refused to do so. This took place in August, 2005.

Heck Miller: Miller refused
to lay criminal activities

At exactly the same time - August 2005 - the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta decided to reverse the convictions from the trial in Miami of the five anti-terrorist Cubans who'd been indicted by this same Ms. Heck Miller. In its landmark ruling, the Court referred extensively to the long list of crimes that the Five had tried to prevent, committed by Posada and other terrorists, and described the Miami trial as "a perfect storm" of prejudice and hostility against the accused.

What will the judges in Atlanta say now that they know that the same attorney who urged the harshest possible sentences for Gerardo, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René was the one who prevented Posada from being judged for his real crimes?

On this same January 18, 2011, Ms. Heck Miller reappeared in Miami. Coincidentally, on that very day, she asked for an extension in order to respond to the habeas corpus petition filed for Gerardo Hernández Nordelo. Her concern is understandable. The only purpose for the arbitrary and unjust indictment against the Five was to defend anti-Cuban terrorism, the preferred work of Miami prosecutors, as has been proven once again, in El Paso.

Of course there were representatives of the so-called news media in El Paso. Keeping a disciplined silence, as usual.

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Translated by Machetera. She is a member of Tlaxcala, the international network of translators for linguistic diversity (http://www.tlaxcala-int.org).

Billboard Demanding Release of the Cuban Five Removed in Miami

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A billboard which had been displayed in Miami on Tuesday demanding the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998 was removed on Wednesday thus ending the ambiance of tolerance and freedom of speech in this city of Florida in barely 24 hours, Granma newspaper reports.

The billboard had been paid by the Miami-based Alianza Martiana organization on 37th Ave. and 4th St NW, exactly in front of the entrance to Casino de los Perros.
 
Alianza Martiana, named after Cuban national hero Jose Marti, emerged on January 28, 2001, on the day of Marti’s birth anniversary. The alliance is made up of Cuban-Americans and Latin-Americans. It has repeatedly spoken out for the release of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez —internationally known as the Cuban Five- in meetings held in different parts of the United States.

The organization has publicly denounced the biased trial to which the Cuban Five were submitted which condemned them to unfair sentences.

The Cuban Five were charged on alleged accusations of being a threat to the US national security when they were actually trying to stop Miami-based anti-Cuba groups from continuing to conduct terrorist crimes against the Cuban people.

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