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Cuba Demands Justice for the Cuban Five.

CUBA, December 12th, 2010.- The president of the National Assembly of People's Power Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, called on Friday judicial proceedings against the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in U.S. for over 12 years completely arbitrary.

At the close of the Cuban Civil Society Forum for Freedom for the Five, he said that there are continuing violations of the human rights of those who have been recognized as Heroes of the Republic of Cuba.

For 12 years this case has expresses how human rights are trampled on in the U.S., while the Five symbolize the rights of men and women, to life, to exist and to protect us from terrorism, said the parliamentary leader on Human Rights Day.

Two years after being adopted, at the end of World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed December 10 for its international celebration.

Like many people crushed by the weight of foreign crowns, few in Cuba felt up to 1950 the global impact of the exaltation of the human condition, due to a new type of colonial subjugation, designed and implemented U.S..

For Cubans, the feeling of recognition, won as tribute to the birth, "free and equal in dignity and rights", as stated in the initial article of the Declaration came at a time that belongs to another calendar: the first of January 1959.

Celebrating the accumulation of achievements of a humanitarian nature, since then until now, which yesterday led to congregation in different parts of the country, hundreds of young people benefiting from current and future policy makers of our revolutionary government, based on full respect for the men, women and children.

In Havana’s Villalón park located at Calzada and D, students like Alexis Camu, University of Information Sciences, came to reaffirm the unique role of Cuba in the defense of human rights and to celebrate the imminent conclusion of the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students.

Amanda Gomez, a student of History, University of Havana, not only hoisted the flags of the island in human rights, but condemned the U.S. government for its double standards, accusing us without arguments of violating articles of a Declaration that they disrespect in its entirety, through the exercise of an imperialist policy and warmongering.

They remembered the victims of the terrorist actions fabricated against Cuba, like the 73 martyrs of the Barbados plane, and the five Cuban prisoners in U.S. jails, punished by guarding us against similar attacks, while within the borders of the self-proclaimed guardians of human rights, those guilty of crimes such as Barbados, are living without atoning for their sins. (Cubaminrex-Granma)

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