Political Prisoners in US
The US, highly interested in turning common violent Cuban prisoners into patriots through a world media campaign, is evidently unaware of human rights of political prisoners in its own jails.
Washington-run media have lately made several statements to support that anti-Cuban campaign, involving the most conservative Latin American and European sectors.
It has been very hard for the campaign's organizers to convince people on the patriotic character of individuals who stray from a society based on social justice to cooperate with those who want to destroy it in return for economic compensation.
It is well known the treatment received by political prisoners in the US sanctioned for fighting inequity, exploitation, terror or oppression.
There are such emblematic cases as US citizens Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. The former with a death penalty and in solitary confinement for 27 years; the latter with two life sentences for the false accusation of having killed two FBI agents.
Abu-Jamal, journalist and former member of the Black Panthers Movement, repeatedly denounces the infrahuman prison conditions he lives in; while Peltier, with serious health problems, knows no mercy.
And what to say about the news on the arrival in Georgia and Switzerland of five men who were kidnapped and for eight years suffered tortured at the Guantanamo jail. They were now released without charge or trial.
That prison still houses another 183 people who have been isolated from the rest of the world for ten years, with no evidence against them.
The five Cuban anti-terrorists facing severe punishment in US jails for infiltrating violent Cuban-born groups settled in Florida are undoubtedly political prisoners, precisely for thwarting terror acts against their country.
Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino, and Gerardo Hernandez not only face unfair sanctions, but also the cruelty of preventing a man from being visited by his wife for eleven years, and another from even seeing his daughter.
The story of these men in US jails includes solitary confinement for long periods, unbiased trials with limitations for the defense, and being in separate prisons.
In this case, US authorities have been more influenced by bitter feelings towards an independent Cuba than by world demands for their release.
Those and many other examples ruin any attempt by an immoral accuser to present Cuba as violator of human rights it honestly respects.
Washington-run media have lately made several statements to support that anti-Cuban campaign, involving the most conservative Latin American and European sectors.
It has been very hard for the campaign's organizers to convince people on the patriotic character of individuals who stray from a society based on social justice to cooperate with those who want to destroy it in return for economic compensation.
It is well known the treatment received by political prisoners in the US sanctioned for fighting inequity, exploitation, terror or oppression.
There are such emblematic cases as US citizens Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. The former with a death penalty and in solitary confinement for 27 years; the latter with two life sentences for the false accusation of having killed two FBI agents.
Abu-Jamal, journalist and former member of the Black Panthers Movement, repeatedly denounces the infrahuman prison conditions he lives in; while Peltier, with serious health problems, knows no mercy.
And what to say about the news on the arrival in Georgia and Switzerland of five men who were kidnapped and for eight years suffered tortured at the Guantanamo jail. They were now released without charge or trial.
That prison still houses another 183 people who have been isolated from the rest of the world for ten years, with no evidence against them.
The five Cuban anti-terrorists facing severe punishment in US jails for infiltrating violent Cuban-born groups settled in Florida are undoubtedly political prisoners, precisely for thwarting terror acts against their country.
Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino, and Gerardo Hernandez not only face unfair sanctions, but also the cruelty of preventing a man from being visited by his wife for eleven years, and another from even seeing his daughter.
The story of these men in US jails includes solitary confinement for long periods, unbiased trials with limitations for the defense, and being in separate prisons.
In this case, US authorities have been more influenced by bitter feelings towards an independent Cuba than by world demands for their release.
Those and many other examples ruin any attempt by an immoral accuser to present Cuba as violator of human rights it honestly respects.
Source:
Prensa Latina
Date:
25/03/2010