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Cuba Urges U.S. to Grant Gerardo Hernandez Access to Appeal Documents

CUBA, August 11, 2011.- Cuba's National Assembly of the People’s Power urged once again American authorities to allow Gerardo Hernandez –one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the U.S. to access the legal documents required for his extraordinary appeal.

A press release posted at www.antiterroristas.cu recounts that on August 1 the Cuban parliament denounced the arbitrary treatment given to Gerardo Hernandez who has been denied access to documents related with his case.

Hernandez, sentenced to two life terms plus 15 years, was arrested in 1998, in Miami, along with Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez for monitoring anti-Cuba terrorist organizations
based in Florida.

The Cuban Parliament’s statement issued this Thursday says Hernandez’s current situation is the same as 10 days ago when the aforementioned claim was filed.

On August 1, the Cuban Parliament agreed to step up the fight for the release of the Cuban Five pointing the need to bring down the wall of silence that allows Washington to perpetuate the injustice on the Cuban Five.

“We have to demand American authorities to deliver the information they are hiding about their plot with so-called “journalists” from Miami who slandered the Cuban Five and provoked and threatened members of the jury, despite protests by the judge herself,” the statement reads.

The Cuban parliament urged the U.S. government to take out satellite images they have been keeping away for 15 years likely because they will reveal the true location of the 24-Feb-1996 incident –when the Brothers to the Rescue aircrafts that violated the Cuban air space were shot down-, for which Hernandez was claimed responsible though there no evidences proving so. (Cubaminrex-ACN)

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