A new demand for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in the United States since 1998 is raised as of today in this eastern city, host of the 32nd edition of the Caribbean Festival.
At the monument to Cuban patriot Antonio Maceo, participants in the Festival of Fire began the meeting The Caribbean for the Five.
According to Pedro Miranda, a delegate from the Institute of Friendship with the Peoples in Santiago de Cuba, the objective is to "unify the voices of the region in a single call for justice."
Delegates received an exhaustive explanation of the trial against those five men, who infiltrated extremist groups not officially linked to the Washington government that organized violent actions against Cuba from that northern territory.
Jurist Raul Infante Rosell detailed the remarkable events of the case that began with the imprisonment of Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez in 1998.
Legal irregularities, excessive condemnations, confinements in punishment cells, were some of the issues the jurist presented to the participants in this cultural event.
The solidarity event, whose official declaration will be issued tomorrow, also echoed the accusation Granma newspaper published about a recent death threat against Rene Gonzalez, who after completing his prison term, was forced to remain in Florida for three more years under supervised release.