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New Evidence in the Process of Cuban Five
The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, announced it will deepen the search for information, to achieve the release of the five Cubans who are detained in the United States since 1998.
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The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, announced it will deepen the search for information, to achieve the release of the five Cubans who are detained in the United States since 1998.
New evidence related to media manipulation of the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez by a group of reporters from Miami are part of the legal files that accompany the request for habeas corpus of the Cuban fighters.
This new phase of the long legal process against the Five will allow the prisoners to challenge their sentences, particularly in light of evidence that exonerate them, which were not disclosed during the trial, says the document issued by the Committee, with the support of the newspaper Liberation and the Fund for Civil Justice.
One of the arguments of the defense team of Gerardo, René, Ramón, Antonio and Fernando, revolves around the secret payments made by the U.S. government to a group of reporters from Miami.
The journalists involved tried to weaken the image of these youngsters wrongly arrested, even before the beginning of the legal process against the five Cubans whose only task was to monitor anti-Cuban extremist groups based in Miami.
In a struggle led by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five that has lasted three years, thanks to the many requests, protected by the Freedom of Information Act, it was learned that there is a deep connection between the government of Washington and the journalists involved.
Thousands of pages of contracts prove that the government's Broadcasting Bureau, the agency that directs the illegal Radio and TV Marti, employed a team of reporters linked to the right wing of Miami.
It was also revealed that the U.S. government paid nearly a million dollars to 27 journalists.
Of vital importance for the new process of habeas corpus of the Cuban Five is that it was demonstrated that payments date back to 1999, showing that journalists in Miami conducted a media campaign with no precedent against the Five.
New evidence related to media manipulation of the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez by a group of reporters from Miami are part of the legal files that accompany the request for habeas corpus of the Cuban fighters.
This new phase of the long legal process against the Five will allow the prisoners to challenge their sentences, particularly in light of evidence that exonerate them, which were not disclosed during the trial, says the document issued by the Committee, with the support of the newspaper Liberation and the Fund for Civil Justice.
One of the arguments of the defense team of Gerardo, René, Ramón, Antonio and Fernando, revolves around the secret payments made by the U.S. government to a group of reporters from Miami.
The journalists involved tried to weaken the image of these youngsters wrongly arrested, even before the beginning of the legal process against the five Cubans whose only task was to monitor anti-Cuban extremist groups based in Miami.
In a struggle led by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five that has lasted three years, thanks to the many requests, protected by the Freedom of Information Act, it was learned that there is a deep connection between the government of Washington and the journalists involved.
Thousands of pages of contracts prove that the government's Broadcasting Bureau, the agency that directs the illegal Radio and TV Marti, employed a team of reporters linked to the right wing of Miami.
It was also revealed that the U.S. government paid nearly a million dollars to 27 journalists.
Of vital importance for the new process of habeas corpus of the Cuban Five is that it was demonstrated that payments date back to 1999, showing that journalists in Miami conducted a media campaign with no precedent against the Five.