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Cuban Five Win a New Trial!
Announcement from the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Today, August 9,
2005,after more than one year of weighing the
evidence, the 11th Circuit Court of a Appeals vacated the trial
court's ruling against the Cuban Five and ordered a new trial with a change of venue.
This is a sensational victory for the Five, the Cuban people,
and the international people's movement that supports them! The
Five will now receive a new trial in a place other than Miami.
This blow to the U.S. government undeniably was made possible by
the hard work and growing support of progressive, justice-loving
people in the U.S. and all over the world.
 The
National Committee to Free the Cuban Five held a telephone press
conference today with the Five's attorneys, Leonard Weinglass,
Richard Klugh, Paul McKenna and Phil Horowitz; the coordinator
of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Gloria La
Riva; and other activists and legal experts to discuss this
landmark victory. We will send more information as soon as we
have it. A.N.S.W.E.R. has been a leading supporter of the
struggle to win justice for the Cuban Five.
More than 3,400 Cubans have been killed by terrorist actions,
many of them emanating from Florida, since the Cuba Revolution
in 1959. The U.S. government and the CIA have been involved in a
decades-long campaign of supporting terrorist actions against
Cuba. The FBI prosecuted five Cuban men who were sent by Cuba
into Miami to monitor the actions of the paramilitary groups, to
protect Cuba from terror attacks. Known as the "Cuban Five,"
they were unjustly tried and convicted in Miami in 2001 and are
serving lengthy sentences in U.S. prison. They are Gerardo
Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González
and René González.
The September 24 antiwar demonstration will also highlight the
continuing threats from the Bush administration against Cuba.
For more background information on the Miami terrorists and the
freedom campaign for the Cuban Five anti-terrorist activists,
visit http://www.freethefive.org/ |
