A student forum in this capital and a Twitter campaign are today part of new actions to demand the return to their country of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly condemned to long prison terms in the United States.
The "Jose Antonio Echeverria" Higher Polytechnic Institute will host as of tomorrow a Universities Network meeting in solidarity with Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez, detained in 1998 for monitoring violent groups operating against Cuba from Miami.
According to Julian Gutierrez, one of the coordinators of the forum, more than 400 local and foreign students studying in the island are expected to attend the campaign.
We intend to keep adding voices in the world to face the media silence in the case of the Five, and denounce injustice they have been victims, he told Prensa Latina.
The network meeting that was created five years ago and includes nearly 80 countries, is part of the campaign "Five Days for the Cuban Five," consisting on developing actions in favor of the antiterrorist fighters on the fifth day of every month.
Today's agenda includes sending messages through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, to demand the return to Cuba of Gerardo, Fernando, Antonio, Ramon and Rene. The first four are still in U.S. prisons, while Rene, who was released from prison on October 7, has been forced to remain in that territory for three more years under supervised release.
During the monthly solidarity days, celebrities, Nobel prizewinners, politicians and activists have claimed U.S. President Barack Obama the freedom of the Cuban Five.
They also use many forums, conferences and press statements, to denounce irregularities in the case, such as the prohibition of relative visits and violations committed by Washington in the trial against the Five.