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Letter to U.S. intellectuals and
artists
ON
June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review
the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters
unjustly imprisoned in your country. This is yet
another chapter in a long chain of injustices
committed against Gerardo Hernández, René González,
Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando
González, depriving them of their freedom for more
than a decade.
Thus, the unanimous demand raised by many voices all
over the world and even in the United States has
fallen on deaf ears. The appeal submitted by
lawyers to the Court was endorsed by 10 Nobel Prize
winners, hundreds of parliamentarians in Europe,
Latin America and the Caribbean, professional
jurists’ organizations and a large number of
religious, academic, cultural and human rights
institutions all over the world.
The
five Cubans were convicted in Miami, where they were
subjected to a trial manipulated by the
Cuban-American ultra-right wing. With the complicity
and support of US authorities, these groups in south
Florida have organized and engaged in acts of
terrorism against Cuba that have cost innocent
lives.
The
Cuban five never endangered U.S. national security
or one single U.S. citizen. Their objective was to
prevent terrorists acting with impunity within the
United States from executing their plots.
President Barack Obama has the power to free the
Five. Doing so would be an act of basic justice and
consistent with his May 21 speech in Washington,
when he spoke in favor of restoring legality to the
fight against terrorism.
We
are convinced that if the U.S. people knew the truth
about the Five, they would spare no effort in having
them released and returned to their families.
We
are appealing to you again, dear colleagues, to
spread the truth about this case by every means
within your reach.
President’s Office
National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC)
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