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French Activist Demands Obama Release Cubans Imprisoned in USA
With the approach of the 16th anniversary of the date when five Cubans were taken prisoner in the United States, French activist Jacqueline Roussie is demanding that U.S. President Barack Obama release the three men who remain imprisoned in that northern country.
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With the approach of the 16th anniversary of the date when five Cubans were taken prisoner in the United States, French activist Jacqueline Roussie is demanding that U.S. President Barack Obama release the three men who remain imprisoned in that northern country.
"Sixteen years in prison for innocent men, it is too much. The United States has stolen their youth, Roussie said in the latest edition of the letter she sends every month to the U.S. president.
The activist recalls in the letter that Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez, were detained on September 12, 1998, for alerting their homeland about terrorist actions being planned by the Miami Mafia.
The latter two returned to their country after completing their sentences, but the other three remain in prison.
Roussie stated that in June in the United States, the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law delivered a complete dossier on the issue to Attorney General Eric Holder and the president himself.
The report shows in detail that Gerardo Hernandez, sentenced to two life sentences plus 15 years in prison, had nothing to do with the February 24, 1996 shootdown of the planes that were part of the Brothers to the Rescue counterrevolutionary operation that repeatedly violated Cuban airspace.
The record proves that the case should end with the release of these three Cubans who are still serving inordinately long sentences, allowing them to return to their country, Roussie says.
According to the Center, located in the U.S., from the simple viewpoint of just and reasonable foreign policy, their release would be a rational, moral, and human measure to end this case that has already lasted 16 years.
"Sixteen years in prison for innocent men, it is too much. The United States has stolen their youth, Roussie said in the latest edition of the letter she sends every month to the U.S. president.
The activist recalls in the letter that Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez, were detained on September 12, 1998, for alerting their homeland about terrorist actions being planned by the Miami Mafia.
The latter two returned to their country after completing their sentences, but the other three remain in prison.
Roussie stated that in June in the United States, the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law delivered a complete dossier on the issue to Attorney General Eric Holder and the president himself.
The report shows in detail that Gerardo Hernandez, sentenced to two life sentences plus 15 years in prison, had nothing to do with the February 24, 1996 shootdown of the planes that were part of the Brothers to the Rescue counterrevolutionary operation that repeatedly violated Cuban airspace.
The record proves that the case should end with the release of these three Cubans who are still serving inordinately long sentences, allowing them to return to their country, Roussie says.
According to the Center, located in the U.S., from the simple viewpoint of just and reasonable foreign policy, their release would be a rational, moral, and human measure to end this case that has already lasted 16 years.