Cuban Parliament Adopts Declaration Supporting Cause of Cuban Five
HAVANA, Cuba, July 11 (acn) Cuban lawmakers today adopted a declaration supporting the cause of the five anti-terrorist fighters held in US jails, during the First Session of the Cuban Parliament’s 7th legislature, underway at Havana’s Convention Center with the presence of President Raul Castro Ruz.
The declaration was presented by Parliament president Ricardo Alarcon, who called on all lawmakers around the world to join the declaration and the accords adopted at the Latin American and Caribbean Parliamentary Encounter, held in Panama last July 7 and 8.
Alarcon reiterated the need to multiply world solidarity in favor of the cause of Ramon Labañino, Gerardo Herñandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez, known as the Cuban Five, and to keep on with the struggle until justice is finally made.
The US Administration’s backdrop against the Five is countered by this Draft Declaration, which was approved unanimously, he said.
The document presented to the plenary session recalls the unfair process to which the Cuban Five have been submitted for nearly 10 years now; they were accused of having acted against the US national security.
On August 9 2005 a three-judge panel at Atlanta´s Court of Appeals unanimously revoked the sentences and ordered a new trial for the Five, since the panel considered that the city of Miami was not an appropriate place to judge the five men, the declaration recalls.
It looked like the US judicial system would finally make justice in the long process full with arbitrariness and manipulations, but a year later the full court, in an unprecedented verdict in US judicial history, revoked the decision of the three-judge panel and affirmed the Miami trial; they sent the case back to the panel after considering the rest of issues challenged by the defense.
After 22 months, the panel rejected almost all appealing arguments by alleging that they lack merit and upheld the guiltiness verdicts against the Cuban Five, and two prison terms, in the case of Rene Gonzalez (15 years) and two life terms plus 15 years in the case of Gerardo Hernandez.
It is interesting to note that the decision was made in the context of the current electoral process in the United States and when the US administration intensifies maneuvers to provide permanent protection to confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, by rejecting his extradition to Venezuela.
All the process, said Ricardo Alarcon, is but one more action against Cuba and against its people; it is not only about an economic war, but also about a campaign of lies in virtue of a dirty war against terror led by the US government. The declaration adopted by the Cuban Parliament was passed with all 569 lawmakers in favor, who represent 92, 82 percent of attendance.
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