New International Effort for the Release of the Cuban Five

Jan 05 2012, 12:40 pm GMT

Guantanamo's Venceremos Newspaper–- The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five urged activists in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States to send messages or call U.S. President Barack Obama on January 5 demanding the release of these five men, who were arrested in 1998 and given harsh sentences for trying to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba.

“On January 5, from any place where you are, send an e-mail, a fax or make a phone call to President Obama to demand that he immediately free Gerardo, Ramon, Antonio and Fernando and that he allows Rene to return to Cuba to his wife and daughters,” the cal reads.

“President Obama knows the Five are innocent. He has heard that from intellectuals, religious people, union leaders, students, actors and artists, parliamentarians, Nobel Prize recipients and thousands of honest people from all over the world. He can and he should put an end to these 13 years of injustice. Only by doing that will he gain the respect of the
international community that is waiting for a humanitarian gesture on his part that will allow the immediate return of the Five to Cuba, to their families and their people,” the text concludes.

Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez remain unjustly imprisoned while Rene Gonzalez was recently released, but he was forced to stay in U.S. territory for three years on probation.

Source: Cuban News Agency