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Nobel Prize winners and world intellectuals sign new call for the release of the Five
The Cuban chapter of the Defense of Humanity Network has issued a new call for the release of five anti-terrorism Cubans unjustly incarcerated in the US for nine years now.

Poet and novelist Roberto Fernández Retamar, president of the Havana-based Casa de las Américas cultural institution, presented the document over the weekend to the national and foreign press.

More than 245 world figures have already signed the document. Among them Nobel Literature Prize winners Wole Soyinka of Nigeria and Nadine Gordimer of South Africa; Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel of Argentina; and Nobel Physics Prize winner Zhores Alfiorov of Russia; as well as artists and intellectuals.

"The Five, states the document, "have remained isolated in maximum security prisons under cruel conditions of imprisonment, in violation of their human rights and U.S. law itself."

"We add our voices to those of all people in the world who are demanding an immediate end to this enormous injustice. We must not give up our undertaking until the truth is heard and these men return to their country and their families," it concludes.

It should be recalled that a panel of three judges from the Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously declared invalid the rigged trial to which the five were subjected in Miami and stated that the sentences should be revoked.

Subsequently that ruling was overturned in a divided vote by the full Court, and the result of the appeal on that decision is awaited.

The detention of the Five, who helped to monitor acts of terrorism organized against Cuba by ultra-right wing groups in Florida, was described as unjust by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Relatives of the Five present at the meeting urged the international press to circulate the call. Maria Eugenia, the sister of Antonio Guerrero, affirmed that the wall of silence surrounding them is an additional sentence.

Source: Radio Habana Cuba


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