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Cuban Lawmakers Adopt Declaration on the Cuban Five
The National Assembly of People's Power (Cuban Parliament) adopted a declaration calling for urgent solidarity by all legislative bodies, political and social organizations to demand the immediate release of the five Cuban patriots unfairly incarcerated in the United States.
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The National Assembly of People's Power (Cuban Parliament) adopted a declaration calling for urgent solidarity by all legislative bodies, political and social organizations to demand the immediate release of the five Cuban patriots unfairly incarcerated in the United States.
Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon read the document during the Third Session of the Parliament's 7th Legislature underway at Havana's Convention Center.
The declaration reads that Gerardo Hernandez, Nordelo, Ramon Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez, Fernando Gonzalez Llort and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, internationally known as the Cuban Five, will soon be serving 11 years of unjust imprisonment.
Following a winding and arbitrary process, the US Supreme Court decided, last June 15, to ignore the unprecedented universal claim for the reviewing of the case, the declaration denounces. The judges preferred to abide by the request of the Obama Administration not to consider the strong arguments presented by the defense team.
The document points out that the judges also ignored dozen of amicus curiae briefs filed with the court by 10 Nobel Peace laureates, legislative bodies, hundreds of parliamentarians, jurist organization from several countries, including the United States. With that action, the top US legislative entity accepted an endless series of violations of the law and legal proceedings thus becoming an accomplice of the promotion and protection of terrorism, which is at the center of the huge injustice committed against the Cuban Five.
The declaration explains that the list of violations is quite long and that just any of them is enough to order the immediate release of the Five. Particularly outrageous is the situation facing Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, who have systematically been banned from visiting their husbands Gerardo and Rene, respectively.
US authorities, the document notes, have thus far denied the women to visit their husbands thus turning a deaf ear on reiterated petitions by religious and human rights organizations, unions and intellectuals around the world. By rejecting to review the case of the Cuban Five, the US Supreme Court practically closed all legal avenues to its solution, the declaration points out.
The document explains that a new phase in the case takes place now, in which the US administration and President Obama in particular have the biggest responsibility. The US President has the constitutional power and the moral obligation to have justice made, reads the declaration and insists that Barack Obama may and must do so.
In that direction, the document explains that Obama must order the withdrawal of the charges against the Cuban patriots, which have already been severely questioned by the Atlanta Court of Appeals. The US President is obliged to release those brave men if he really intends to give Latin America and the World an image about change.
The declaration finally points out that Cuban men and women, for whom the Five sacrificed their lives, will be able to restlessly fight until achieving their release from prison and their free return to their homeland.
Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon read the document during the Third Session of the Parliament's 7th Legislature underway at Havana's Convention Center.
The declaration reads that Gerardo Hernandez, Nordelo, Ramon Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez, Fernando Gonzalez Llort and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, internationally known as the Cuban Five, will soon be serving 11 years of unjust imprisonment.
Following a winding and arbitrary process, the US Supreme Court decided, last June 15, to ignore the unprecedented universal claim for the reviewing of the case, the declaration denounces. The judges preferred to abide by the request of the Obama Administration not to consider the strong arguments presented by the defense team.
The document points out that the judges also ignored dozen of amicus curiae briefs filed with the court by 10 Nobel Peace laureates, legislative bodies, hundreds of parliamentarians, jurist organization from several countries, including the United States. With that action, the top US legislative entity accepted an endless series of violations of the law and legal proceedings thus becoming an accomplice of the promotion and protection of terrorism, which is at the center of the huge injustice committed against the Cuban Five.
The declaration explains that the list of violations is quite long and that just any of them is enough to order the immediate release of the Five. Particularly outrageous is the situation facing Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, who have systematically been banned from visiting their husbands Gerardo and Rene, respectively.
US authorities, the document notes, have thus far denied the women to visit their husbands thus turning a deaf ear on reiterated petitions by religious and human rights organizations, unions and intellectuals around the world. By rejecting to review the case of the Cuban Five, the US Supreme Court practically closed all legal avenues to its solution, the declaration points out.
The document explains that a new phase in the case takes place now, in which the US administration and President Obama in particular have the biggest responsibility. The US President has the constitutional power and the moral obligation to have justice made, reads the declaration and insists that Barack Obama may and must do so.
In that direction, the document explains that Obama must order the withdrawal of the charges against the Cuban patriots, which have already been severely questioned by the Atlanta Court of Appeals. The US President is obliged to release those brave men if he really intends to give Latin America and the World an image about change.
The declaration finally points out that Cuban men and women, for whom the Five sacrificed their lives, will be able to restlessly fight until achieving their release from prison and their free return to their homeland.