A group of lawyers from San Juan de la Maguana province, in the Dominican Republic, have created a Committee in Support of The Five, and have issued a communiqué to demand the release of these Cuban antiterrorist fighters.

During the activity, the political counselor of the Cuban embassy in that nation, Enilda Ginarte, gave details on the development of the legal efforts to gain revision of the unjust sentences of these patriots, ranking from 15 years to two life imprisonments, Prensa Latina
news agency reports.

Gerardo Hernández, René González, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero were monitoring the activities of Florida-based anti- Cuban terrorist groups and have been incarcerated since 1998 in different US jails.

Theirs is a unique case due to the large amount of documents of support signed by Nobel Prize winners, parliamentarians, lawyers' associations, intellectuals and other world personalities, highlighted Ginarte.

The board of directors of the new Solidarity-with-Cuba committee is made up by Anulfo Mateo, Teodoro Alcántara, José Reyes, José A. Rodríguez, Irene Mateo, Salvinia Caminero, Nelson Pablo de la Rosa, Ricardo Andrés Alcántara Fernández and Víctor Merán.