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Cuba, August 1st, 2010.- The Cuban National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) held the U.S. government responsible for “the health and physical integrity of Gerardo Hernandez,” one of the five Cuban antiterrorist unjustly imprisoned in that country.

The ANPP accused the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the unjustified sending of Hernandez to the “hole” where he has been submitted to temperatures above 35 degrees Centigrade since July 21, despite being ill.

Throughout the long process against the Cuban Five, the US federal authorities have used similar methods to deprive them of their defense and to obstruct justice, the document reads.

At the opening of the ANPP plenary session, its president, Ricardo Alarcón, briefed the deputies on the visit to Hernandez made by his lawyer, Leonard Weinglass, along the president of a major Human Rights Committee in California, to the Victorville prison, where Weinglass saw by himself the inhumane conditions of Hernandez’s confinement.

During the 12 years since his arrest the U.S. authorities have banned Hernandez’s wife, Adriana Perez Oconor, to visit him in prison, adds the document.

Then several parliamentarians expressed their commitment to the protest, including painter Alexis Leyva (Kcho), who proposed that in a large white cloth placed at the entrance of the plenary hall each deputy affixed its signature, "and it will become a fist of protest of all of us against the US, for our brothers. "

Deputy Armando Hart recalled that when Barack Obama won the presidency, a group of US university authorities made a proposal on how the nation should discuss Latin American issues.

He proposed to invite those university authorities to discuss Gerardo Hernandez’s situation.

Alarcon put the proposal to the vote and received unanimous approval

Finally, Alarcon announced that the anti-terrorist fighter asked hissister Isabel to send his personal thanks to everyone in the world interested in his current situation and to ask them not to write to him now because he can neither answer letters nor has where to put them.

He then guessed that the top American authorities might not have full knowledge of the inhumane treatment Gerardo is suffering from, and asked them to flood Obama´s offices with letters and to encourage everybody to write “without offending” on that issue. (Cubaminrex - ACN)

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