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Solidarity with Cuban Gerardo Hernandez On the Rise

CUBA, August 3, 2010.-  Solidarity with Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the US, is on the grow in Latin America.

Prensa Latina reported on world actions in support of Hernandez, among them those by the Chilean Movement of Solidarity with Cuba, which sent letters of protest to US President, Barack Obama, and to Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and other high-government officials from that country in reference to the imprisonement conditions to which Hernandez has been submitted.

In the letter, the organization demands immediate medical care for Gerardo and denounces that he has been kept in an isolation cell for a week without having committed any infractions, suffering temperatures higher that 35 Celsius degrees.

The Chilean organization stated that it is outrageous that Hernandez was sent to “the hole” once again while he is preparing his appeal.

The United States has more than enough evidence showing that the Cuban Five’s (Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez) only crime was to fight terrorism, reads the letter.

The Movement calls the Chilean people to write to the US government asking it to remove Hernandez from the isolation cell, to grant a visa to his wife Adriana Perez so she can visit him and to respect his right to prepare his appeal.

Similar actions were taken by the Cuba-Australia Friendship Society, which asked its members to write to the American authorities and claim for the release of the Cuban Five.

Bolivian filmmaker Jorge Sanjines reportedly said that the Barack Obama administration is committing a new lese humanity crime against Hernandez, which should be sanctioned by the international community.

In Quito, Ecuador, leaders of several organizations slammed the human rights violations of which Hernandez has been subject and summoned its members for Wednesday to ask them to send letters to the US government and claim for the end of the punishment. (ACN).-

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