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French Activist Demands Obama to Free the Cuban Five

The French activist Jacqueline Roussie demanded today US President Barack Obama to listen to the international clamour and release the Cuban Five who are unjustly imprisoned in United States.

In a letter sent to the US president Roussie remembered that Fernando Gonzales was released on February 27 after serving an unjust and long sentence and previously also returned to his country Rene Gonzalez, but Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero still remain in prison.

During the last few years has increased the solidarity campaign for the Cuban Five, as they are internationally known and many personalities have joined this claim, pointed out the activist of the solidarity movement with Cuba.

Although it is impossible to mention all of them the text quoted the philosopher Noam Chomsky, Nobel literature Prize Nafine Gordiner, actor Danny Glover, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, former US president Jimmy Carter and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Mr. President, what are you waiting for to put end to this monumental injustice and finally release the three last Cubans, wonder Roussie.

The Cuban Five were arrested in 1998 and condemned to a rigged trial in Miami to long sentences for alerting their country of terrorist acts of anti-Cuban organizations established in Florida.

On March 7 and 8 will be in session in London an international commission for the case of the Cuban Five, which will host the prestigious Law Society, said the activist and recalled that the meeting will be sponsored by the European Solidarity Movement and the International Association of Democratic Jurists.

Source: 

Prensa Latina

Date: 

01/03/2014