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ALARCON
TALKS ABOUT THE FIVE ON MSNBC
Even the judge complained!
September
7, 2006
"HOW could they pretend that it was possible to
bring together an objective and impartial jury in
Miami when even the judge complained of
inappropriate behavior?" asked Ricardo Alarcón,
president of the Cuban Parliament in an interview
granted to the U.S. TV channel MSNBC.
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Injustice
against the Five and impunity for terrorismo
August 23, 2006
GERARDO,
Ramón, René, Fernando and Antonio are still behind
bars in the United States, three of them in maximum
security prisons, and all of them subjected to the
hateful revenge of those in Washington who have made
them the target of reprisals against the Cuban
Revolution.
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Terrorist conspiracies could help case of the Five
August 22, 2006
THE most recent
revelations about conspiracies by anti-Cuban
counterrevolutionary groups in the United States
could help the case of the Cuban Five, according to
a U.S. newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
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Brazilian
lawyers study lawsuit to free the Five
August 18, 2006
BRASILIA, August 18 (PL).— Efforts to
free the five Cuban heroes imprisoned in the United
States acquired fresh impetus today with support
from the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH)
of the Brazilian Order of Attorneys (OAB).
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Cuban Parliament
calls for redoubling the struggle to free the Five
August 17, 2006
THE International Relations Commission of the
National Assembly of People’s Power of the Republic
of Cuba has condemned the decision adopted by the
Atlanta Court of Appeals against the five Cubans who
remain imprisoned in the United States for fighting
against terrorism.
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The court ignored
the anti-Cuban hostility that reigns in Miami
August 11, 2006
"THIS decision is not the end of the case,"
emphasized attorney Leonard Weinglass of the United
States, commenting on a ruling by the Court of
Appeals in Atlanta revoking a favorable decision for
the Five by a three-judge panel from that same court
that had acknowledged the hostile environment in
Miami where the trial was held and ordering a new
trial.
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ALARCON ON THE ATLANTA APPEALS COURT
Judge Wilson won’t be a bomb
victim in Miami
August 11, 2006
JUDGE Wilson must “feel very
satisfied at this moment” because “he knows that he
would be the last person targeted for a bomb attack
in Miami,” commented Ricardo Alarcón, president of
the National Assembly, in a special edition of the
“Informative Roundtable” on Cuban television
regarding the decision of the 11th Circuit Court of
Appeals of Atlanta.
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Unprecedented Atlanta decision
August 9, 2006
JUST one year after the decision
of a panel of three judges in the 11th Circuit Court
of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, who unanimously
overturned the Miami trial of the five Cuban
anti-terrorist fighters and annulled the sentences
handed down, the plenary of that judicial instance
has just announced its decision on a reconsideration
of the finding of August 9, 2005.
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"These judges could not ignore the
truth"
August
8, 2006
LAST
year's decision by a three-judge panel of the 11th
Circuit
Court of Appeals in Atlanta overturning a Miami
court ruling against the Cuban Five was "historic"
and "necessary," commented California Lawyer Ian
Thompson who represented the US National Lawyers
Guild at the oral hearing of the case in March 2004.
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Former
Democratic congressman visits one of the Five in prison
June 29, 2006
WORLD DATA SERVICE.— Former U.S.
Democratic Congressman Esteban Torres went to the federal
prison in Victorville, California to visit Gerardo
Hernández, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United
States on whose behalf an international campaign is being
waged for their freedom.
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Cubans Jailed in U.S. as Spies Are
Hailed at Home as Heroes
June 5, 2006
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign
Service
Saturday, June 3, 2006; A01
HAVANA -- European tourists here send home postcards
with stamps bearing the images of five faces, known
simply as los muchachos (the young men) or
los cinco (the five). The faces, usually
surrounded by billowing Cuban flags, stare out,
larger than life, from factory walls, apartment
buildings, billboards.
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THE FIVE
Alarcón: “The Court has no alternative but to annul
‘Charge 3’ against Gerardo”
March
30,
2006
THE Court of Appeals in Atlanta
has no alternative but to annul Charge No. 3 in the
case of Gerardo Hernández, because the prosecution
itself admitted before that same court that the
available evidence was insufficient to convict him,
affirmed Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban
Parliament.
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Prosecution has
hard time responding to judges’ concerns
February 20, 2006
YESTERDAY Atlanta was in the sights of everyone
in the world fighting for the cause of our five
compatriots. It was the day of the hearing in which
the prosecution and the defense to put their
arguments to the plenary of the 11th Circuit Court
of Appeals after the unusual request by the U.S.
government to reconsider the August ruling by three
of the Appeal Court judges ordering a retrial in a
different venue.
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Amnesty
International
raise "urgent concerns" with the US over treatment
of five Cuban prisoners*
February
6, 2006
Five Cuban
men held in the US for the past 7 years on various
charges of espionage were denied a "fair and
impartial" trial according to a letter from Amnesty
International made public today.
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Lawyers for the Five demand their release
December
26, 2005
THE
lawyers of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United
States for combating terrorism have insisted on
their clients’ innocence and called for their
immediate release.
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Visas in suspense for
family members of the Five
Why protract justice and
obviate rights?
November
16, 2005
NEITHER yes or no. Just waiting, drawing out a
response. Something that has become a habit in these
lengthy judicial – and political – proceedings
underway in the United States against René, Gerardo,
Antonio, Fernando and Ramón.
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Visa delay for
wife of Cuban anti-terrorist
November
10, 2005
THE
U.S. Interests Section (USIS) in Havana has
postponed granting a visa to Olga Salanueva, the
wife of René González, one of the five Cubans
unjustly imprisoned by Washington for combating
terrorism.
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Court of Appeals to
review ruling
on the Five
November
1, 2005
THE
11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has agreed
to review an appeal by the U.S. Attorney in Miami on
the ruling annulling the convictions of five Cubans
unjustly imprisoned in the United States for
fighting against terrorism.
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For the Five, a
political sentence
October 10, 2005
SPEAKING in Havana a few months ago Leonard
Weinglass, the New York lawyer of Antonio Labañino,
emphasized how his client didn’t even touch a single
page of any secret document, but nevertheless has
been handed down the same life sentence as the two
most famous spies in recent U.S. history, Aldrich
Ames and Robert Hanssen¼
with the difference that those two individuals had
taken thousands of documents from the files of the
institutions in which they held high-level positions.
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DISGRACE IN EL PASO
Revenge in Miami
September
29,
2005
Two days ago, in El Paso, Texas, a spokeswoman
for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
announced the expeditious decision by Judge William
L. Abbott not to deport terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles to Venezuela or Cuba, arguing that he was
at risk of being tortured in either nation, and
resorting in a manipulative way to the exemptions
provided for by the International Convention Against
Torture.
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Miami prosecutors ask for
reconsideration of Atlanta court ruling
September
29,
2005
MIAMI (USA),
September 28—Federal prosecutors in Florida’s
southern district have asked the full 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals to reconsider the decision
overturning the arbitrary and illegal trial of the
five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in 2001 in Miami.
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Violations
of family law in the case of the Five
September
16,
2005
THE
6th Ibero-American Conference on the Family
yesterday devoted a special session to detailing the
obstacles placed in the way of family visits to
René, Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando and Ramón,
political prisoners in the United States for seven
years.
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Nothing
justifies their imprisonment
September
13,
2005
"THE
kidnapping needs to end now. If they want to appeal,
let them appeal. If they want another trial, fine,
but with the Five set free," affirmed Ricardo
Alarcón de Quesada, president of the National
Assembly of People’s Power.
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Illegal kidnapping of the Five in the United States
September 2,
2005
Cuban deputies have passed a declaration stating that the incarceration of the five Cuban heroes is an illegal kidnapping and that the US government, which never should have arrested them,
has the moral, political and legal obligation to immediately and unconditionally release them.
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