SANTO DOMINGO, September 9.— The Senate of the Dominican Republic has passed a resolution calling on U.S. President Barack Obama to release the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in that country after being handed down lengthy sentences.

At the proposal of Senator Euclides R. Sánchez, the Parliament agreed to press for the five Cuban heroes "to be returned to their homeland to be reunited with their families and return to a life of freedom, taking into consideration that the information they collected, including information presented to the U.S. government, was only obtained in order to save lives and protect other human beings from acts of terrorism."

The document explains that the mission of Ramón, Gerardo, Antonio, René and Fernando, "was not to obtain U.S. military secrets," as stated in the charges, "but to monitor the terrorist activities" of mercenaries in Miami "and report on threats to attack Cuba."

The Resolution recalls that five years previously, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention stated that the arrest of the Five "violates Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."

The resolution also states how, over several decades, more than 3,000 Cubans have died as a result of acts of terrorism, including the mid-flight sabotage of a Cuban airliner on October 6, 1976, which caused the deaths of 73 people, "an event for which Orlando Bosch Avila and Luis Faustino Posada Carriles have been judged as principally responsible," while they remain in the United States without having been charged or receiving any sanction whatsoever.

The Dominican Senate agreed to send the Resolution to President Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. (SE)