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Free the Five and lifting the blockade demanded in Colombo.
SRI LANKA, August 29TH, 2010.- The last session of the 19th Congress of Sri Lankan Communist Party approved a resolution demanding immediately the freedom for the Cuban Five antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the US. More...
Argentine Alternative Media Call to Free the Five
ARGENTINA, August 25th, 2010.- The National Network of Alternative Media (RNMA) of Argentina reiterated today its call for the immediate release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned since 1998 in the United States. More...
The Five Awarded FMC 50th Anniversary of the Commemorative Seal
CUBA, August 24, 2010.- The National Secretary of the Federation of Cuban Women granted, on Saturday in Havana, the 50th Anniversary of the FMC Commemorative Seal to the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly held in US prisons. More...
Brazilian journalists demand release of the Five.
BRASIL, August 23, 2010.- The members of the National Federation of Journalists of Brazil demanded in Porto Alegre the release of the Five Cubans Antiterrorist unjustly imprisoned in U.S. for nearly 12 years. More...
By Danny Glover and Saul Landau
From the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San Bernadino National Forests meet. More...
Sao Paulo Youth Forum Calls for Freedom of the Cuban Five.
ARGENTINA, August 23, 2010.- Participants at the Second Sao Paulo Youth Forum demanded the immediate liberation of five Cuban men serving lengthy sentences in the United States for fighting US-born terrorism against Cuba. More...
Cuban Antiterrorist Says He Is Confident in His Return to Cuba
CUBA, August 18th, 2010.- Fernando Gonzalez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States, who is turning 47 today, ratified his confidence in their return to their home land. More...
Call in Peru to strengthen support for the Cuban Five
CUBA, August 18th, 2010.- A group of prominent personalities convened in Lima (Peru) to maximize solidarity with the Cuban Five, unjustly imprisoned in U.S. for almost 12 years. More...
The Cuban Five Present at Dolores Huerta's 80 Birthday Concert Celebration
EE.UU., August 17th, 2010.- Under the theme "Weaving Movements Together," a benefit concert honoring the 80th birthday of long time civil rights activist Dolores Huerta took place on Friday, August 13th at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California. Her idea for the celebratory event was to build a space that would make available a progressive agenda. More...
Cuban Minister of the Interior in Vietnam
VIETNAM, August 16TH, 2010 .- Army Corps General Abelardo Colome Ibarra, the Cuban Minister of the Interior, arrived in this capital to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam. More...
Solidarity Movement Calls to Use Social Networks in Fight for the Cuban Five
CUBA, August 12th, 2010.- The Cuba-Venezuela Mutual Solidarity Movement called to make better use of modern information technologies, particularly social networks, in the campaign for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States. More...
Activity in Favor of the Cuban Five in New York
EE.UU., August 12th, 2010.- Among other activities in favor of the freedom of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in US jails since 1998, on September 3, an exhibition of the artistic work of Antonio Guerrero—one of them—will be inaugurated in New York. More...
Gerardo Hernández thanks Danny Glover for visit him in jail
EE.UU., August 10th, 2010.- Cuban antiterrorist fighter, Gerardo Hernandez, unjustly imprisoned for over a decade in the United States appreciated the gesture of solidarity of renowned American actor Danny Glover, who visited him last Sunday in the federal prison of Victorville, California State.
Russian Committee Opposes Cruelty against Cuban Five
RUSSIA, August 5th, 2010.- The president of the Russian Committee to Free the Five, Elena Lozhkina, denounced the cruel treatment given to the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters in the United States prisons. More...
PARLATINO condemns imprisonment of the Five
CUBA, August 5th, 2010.- The Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO) reiterated its condemnation of the unjust imprisonment of the Cuban Five, who remain since 1998 in U.S. prisons. More...
Spanish Senator Highlights Example of the Cuban Five
CUBA, August 4th, 2010.- Spanish Senator Joan Josep Nuet said on Wednesday in this eastern city that the five Cuban heroes, unfairly imprisoned in the United States, are a real example of struggle against terrorism. More...
Message from Gerardo Hernandez after being released from "the hole"
Dear Sisters and Brothers:
I am dictating these words via telephone, which is why I must be brief and I will not be able to say everything I would have liked. Yesterday afternoon I was removed from "the hole" with the same speed in which I was thrown in. More...
Guayasamín Foundation Requests Support of the Cuban Five from U.S. Church
CUBA, August 3RD, 2010.- The Guayasamín Foundation, from Ecuador, published a letter to a priest from a Church in Washington D.C., Peitro Sambi, requesting efforts in support of freeing the Cuban Five, imprisoned unjustly in the United States for fighting terrorism. More...
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. More...
Latin Americans Condemn Cruel Treatment of Cuban Hero
CUBA, August 2, 2010.- The 17th Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity-with Cuba Brigade signed on Monday a declaration of condemnation of the mistreatment one of the five Cuban heroes imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism is subjected to. More...
Spanish Communist Party demands end to mistreatment of Gerardo Hernández
ESPAÑA, August 2, 2010.- The Communist Party of Spain (PCE), denounces that one of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez, is for FBI decision, from Wednesday July 21 once again locked in a punishment cell (the Hole), without ventilation and under temperatures above 35*C, and without any contact with the outer world, conditions that seriously undermine his health and physical integrity. More...
Declaration of National Assembly of the People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba
Since Wednesday, 21st of July, Gerardo Hernández Nordelo has been in “the hole” again; this time in conditions so harsh that his health and physical integrity are being seriously affected.
He is locked in a minimum-space punishment cell with no ventilation that he shares with another prisoner, withstanding temperatures above 100°F, with no contact permitted with the outside world. More...
Cuban Parliament Protest Mistreatment against Gerardo Hernandez
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. More...
Freedom of Cuban Five among Priorities of Deputies
Other very important issues were the rejection of the blockade imposed by Washington on the Caribbean nation
CUBA, July 30, 2010.- The battle for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. was one of the priorities in the Commission of the Cuban Parliament during the last six months, deputies stressed today. More...
Chilean Activists Ask U.S. President to Release the Cuban Five
CUBA, July 29, 2010.- Members of the ¨Movimiento Pueblo Sin Techo,¨ or ¨Population without a Roof Movement,¨ from Chile, asked U.S. President Barack Obama to free the Cuban Five, who are unjustly imprisoned in U.S. jails. More...
Argentinians Call for the Freedom of the Cuban Five and End of U.S. Blockade against Cuba
CUBA, July 20, 2010.- Residents of the Patagonia region of Argentina called for the end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba and for the release of the Cuban Five. People signed post cards to President Obama asking for the freedom of the five anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States at an event in the city of Neuquén. More...Nicaraguan President Receives Daughter of Cuban Ramon Labañino
CUBA, July 20.- Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega received Aily Labañino, daughter of one of the five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the U.S., in Managua.
Aily Labañino spoke with the Nicaraguan president about the rigorous conditions of imprisonment to which her father, Ramon Labañino, has been submitted in the United States and said she appreciates the campaigns for the release of her father and his other four compatriots and the demonstrations of support. More...
Solidarity with The Cuban Five in Portugal
CUBA, July 7, 2010.- Albano da Silva Ribeiro, President of the Construction Labor Union
in Portugal, gave the Cuban ambassador to Lisbon, Eduardo Gonzalez, a picture with the photos
of the 10 Nobel Prize winners demanding freedom for The Five. More...
Tribute to Antonio Guerrero in Guatemala
CUBA, July 7, 2010.- Cuban participants in the literacy campaign in Guatemala paid tribute to Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States since1998. More...
Case of the Cuban Five Present in Anti-imperialist Meeting in Sweden
CUBA, July 6, 2010.- An impressive anti-imperialist march was carried out in Stockholm
to demand the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists incarcerated in the United States, and
in support of the granting of visas to two of their wives to visit them in prison. More...
Sweden and Russia demand the release of the Cuban Five
CUBA, July 5, 2010.-An anti-imperialist march in Sweden demanded the release of the Five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. and supported the granting of visas to their spouses to visit them in jail. More...
Nelson Mandela is inspirational for the Cuban Five
CUBA, July 6, 2010.- When subjected to confinement, to the silence of a punishment cell, two images accompanied him: one of Che´s and another of Nelson Mandela`s. Then neither Gerardo Hernandez nor his four brothers knew how brutal American injustice would treat them. He supposed that those two symbols of resistance would be required in that confined space. Probably they saved him too many times. More...
June 28, 2010
President Barack Obama
The Club of solidarity with Cuba in Haiti, Jose Marti,has the honor to greet you and wish you a happy father day. The Club “Jose Martí” takes this opportunity to asks you too the liberation of the 5 political Cuban prisioner in jail in USA since 1998 for defending their native country from terrorism. They need freedom to be like you with they respective family members. More...
Rights of the Cuban Five to Communicate with Families Discussed at Conference
CUBA, July 2, 2010.- Participants of the Third International Conference of Women, Gender, and Law will discuss the human right to have communication with one´s family in the case of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States. More...
Puerto Rican Brigade Members Meet Families of the Cuban Five
The 19th group of the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade from Puerto Rico met with the families of the Cuban Five, the men who for over 11 years have been imprisoned in US jails
CUBA, July 2, 2010.- The visitors said that the cause for the liberation of these five men —Ramón, Gerardo, René, Antonio y Fernando— is already part of the battles they are fighting in Puerto Rico. More...
Cuban Five Present in European Social Forum
CUBA, June 29, 2010.- Everything is ready for the start of the Sixth European Social Forum on July 1st during which the situation of The Five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in US prisons will be denounced.
Under the slogan "Another Europe is needed. It is up to Them to Pay for Their Crisis," nearly 80 popular organizations in Turkey are giving final touches to this new ESF expected to be focused on alternatives to the global economic crisis from an anti-capitalist prospect. More...
Release of the Cuban Five Demanded in Haiti
HAITI, June 23, 2010. Several Haitian organizations have presented a declaration in favor of the release from prison of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States. More...
Germans Demand Release of the Cuban Five
Cuba, June 23, 2010.- Dozens of Germans recently demanded the immediate release of the five Cubans unfairly imprisoned in the United States and said they will send postcards to American President Barack Obama stating their claim. More...
Case of Cuban Five Highlighted at the US Social Forum in Detroit
Cuba, June 22, 2010.- The 2nd US Social Forum began on Monday in the US city of Detroit entitled: "Another World is Possible". Over 15,000 solidarity activists are scheduled to attend the event which will reflect the right to self-determination of oppressed peoples and communities. More...
Silvio Rodríguez Demands Release of the Cuban Five
Cuba, June22, 2010. Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez dazzled at Constitution Hall in Washington DC where he performed last weekend. More...
Case of the Cuban Five Is a Breach of Justice, Says US Retired Colonel
CUBA, June 21, 2010. US Col. (Ret.) Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, said the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States is “an egregious breach of justice.” More...
Update on Cuban Five Gerardo Hernandez Case
CUBA, June 21, 2010.- It was announced that a habeas corpus petition was filed on behalf of Gerardo Hernández. What is a habeas corpus petition and why it is also known as collateral? More...
Case of the Cuban Five Is a Breach of Justice, Says US Retired Colonel
CUBA, June 19, 2010.- US Col. (Ret.) Larry Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, said the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States is “an egregious breach of justice.”
The Cuban Five —as Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez are internationally known— were arrested in 1998 and given harsh sentences for monitoring anti-Cuba extremist groups in South Florida that were planning and carrying out terrorist attacks against the island. More...
Solidarity Message with Cuban Five from Surinamese Political Leader, Chas Mijnals.
SURINAME, June 17, 2010. Regarding the Collateral Appeal Presented in favor of Gerardo Hernandez, One of the Cuban Five, Chas Mijnals, lawyer and president of the PVRS party (Party for Permanent Prosperity Suriname) send a message saying that his solidarity still goes out to these patriots who in the service of their country and in the interest of their fellow human being, have tried to prevent terrorist attacks on their country in those cases where the country that should primarily have taken actions against terrorism has not done so or turned a blind eye to it. More...
PARAGUAY, June 16, 2010. The Paraguayan Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba convened a meeting on Wednesday to support the Cuban Five, unjustly imprisoned in 1998 in US jails for fighting terrorism. More...
Cuban Five: Message to the US People
CUBA, June 16, 2010. The official Granma daily published an article entitled “Heroic Conduct in the Entrails of the Monster”, on June 20th of 2001 announcing the crime committed against the five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the US for fighting terrorism. More...
US Social Forum to Discuss Cuban Five
Washington, June 15, 2010. The case of the Cuban Five, antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the USA, will be discussed at the US Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan, from June 22 to 26, according to a press release. More...
Organizations from Miami support Habeas Corpus petition for Gerardo Hernandez
CUBA, June 15, 2010. Martiana Alliance's headquarters in Miami circulated a statement of support for the five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. and to the habeas corpus filed on behalf of Gerardo Hernández. More...
Correa emphasizes that the Cuban Five are political prisoners
ECUADOR, June 15, 2010. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has criticized the imprisonment of the five Cubans arrested for preventing terrorist attacks in Miami as an attack on their human rights. More...
UNITED STATES, June 14, 2010.— The collateral appeal – or habeas corpus – in the name of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, one of the five Cuban heroes unjustly imprisoned in U.S. jails for fighting terrorism, was filed today in Miami Federal Court as the last resource for his case within the U.S. legal system, according to the antiterroristas.cu website. More...
Solidarity Event with the Cuban Five in Paraguay
CUBA, June 14, 2010. A solidarity event with the Cuban Five will be held in Paraguay on June 16th. A press release by the organization says the event will take place at the Philosophy School at the National University of Asunción, and will also focus on other violations of civil and human rights committed by the United States against the Cuban Five. More...
Mexican Senator Demands Release of the Cuban Five
Cuba, June 10, 2010. Yeidckol Polevnsky, vice-president of the Mexican Senate, made an appeal in this capital to followers of Jose Marti’s ideas, so they raise their voices in favor of the release of The Five. More...
International Solidarity with the Cuban Five Continues
CUBA, June 10, 2010. New demonstrations of international solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States took place in Ecuador, Italy and Djibouti. More...
By Miguel Fernandez Martinez
Elizabeth Palmeiro, wife of Ramón Labañino, one of the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States, opens its heart to the readers to share views on 20 years of marriage, whose anniversary was marked this June 2. More...
Ramon Labañino: Another Birthday in Prison
By Teresita Jorge
Ramon Labañino will celebrate his 47th birthday on June 9th in a US prison for having infiltrated extreme right wing Cuban American organizations based in southern Florida to stop them from carrying out terrorist activities against the Cuban people. More...
Mother of One of Cuban 5 Gives Lectures in Ecuador
ECUADOR, June 6, 2010. Irma Schewerert, mother of Rene Gonzalez, one of the five Cubans that have been imprisoned in the United States for over 11 years for fighting terrorism, gave a conference in Ecuador Loja National University. More...
Geneva, June 7, 2010. Cuba reiterated to the Human Rights Council (HRC) United Nations the cases of Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez, wives of two of the five Cuban antiterrorist serving long sentences in the United States.
Cuban delegate Janet Roman referred in particular to psychological violence perpetrated against two Cuban women, whom the U.S. government prevents from visiting their imprisoned husbands for more than 10 years. More...
June 10: Vancouver & Montreal Picket to Free the 5 Cuban Heroes!
CANADA, June 7th, 2010.- At a press conference held on June 2, 2010, in Washington DC, new evidence was released outlining a $74,400 campaign paid for by the U.S. government to fabricate slander and lies against the 5 Cuban Heroes. The evidence concluded a number of journalists were paid secretly by the U.S. government to produce countless articles against the 5. More...
Gerardo Hernandez: Birthday in a Lonely Cell
CUBA, June 5, 2010. Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo was born in Havana on June 4th, 45 years ago today among a humble family that taught him to love his homeland and social justice.
Gerardo has been in prison for almost 12 years after a biased trial in Miami in which he received unjust sentences of two life imprisonment plus 15 years for fighting terrorism. More...
Washington Paid Journalists to Spin News against the Cuban Five
CUBA, June 3, 2010. Washington paid nearly $74,400 to journalists in Miami as part of a smear campaign against five Cuban antiterrorists that remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998. More...
US Organizations Demand Obama Visas for Cuban Five’s Wives
CUBA, June 2, 2010. New York City organizations asked President Barack Obama to authorize the issuing of entry visas for the wives of two of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States. More...
The Cuban Five should be Free, Affirms Silvio Rodriguez
CUBA, June 2, 2010. Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez advocated in New York the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists incarcerated in the United States since 1998, and argued why “they should be free.” More...
Actions for the Release of the Cuban Five Redoubled in Venezuela
CUBA, June 1, 2010. Actions for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States since 1998 are strengthened in Venezuela, with concerts, marches and exhibitions. More...
Spanish Women Ask Michelle Obama to Support Release of the Cuban Five
SPAIN, May 31, 2010. More than a hundred Spanish women are appealing to United States First Lady Michelle Obama to intercede in the case of five Cuban antiterrorists being held since 1998 in the United States for their efforts to stop terrorism, reported Prensa Latina. More...
Forum for the Release of the Cuban Five Held in Panama
CUBA, May 31, 2010. The Faculty of Law of the University of Panama carried out an academic forum on the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States, the Granma newspaper reports on Monday.More...
Alarcon Criticizes Silence of the US Media on the Cuban Five
CUBA, May 28, 2010. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon affirmed on Friday that if the US people knew the truth about the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists, they would force President Barack Obama to release them from prison. More...
Cuban Political Prisoner’s Art Illuminates a Former Prison in Los Angeles
CUBA, May 27, 2010.- Social and Public Arts Resource Center in Venice, California in the United States is exhibiting paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the US.
The SPARC Gallery, former Venice Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, used to be a prison from 1929 until the early 1970´s. In 1977, Judy Baca, renowned artist and founder of SPARC, turned the prison into her organization´s main office and created a space for art exhibits.
Between May 22nd and June 11th, the side of the building is exhibiting a large poster with the image of a photograph taken by the prestigious Cuban photographer, Liborio Nodal and a painting by Antonio Guerrero. More...
Jurists Will Denounce Injustices against the Cuban Five
CUBA, May 24, 2010. Professionals from 20 countries who will participate in the Fifth International Meeting on Justice and Law will denounce the violations and injustices committed against five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998. More...
Solidarity with the Cuban Five and rejection to the Anti Cuban Campaign in Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA, May 22nd, 2010. The Cuban Graduates Association of Sri Lanka expressed today their solidarity with the Cuban nation against the brutal campaign carried out through the mass media by the super powers to tarnish the Cuban Revolution, and to impede the inspiration of such Revolution by the other nations. More...
Paintings by Cuban Hero Antonio Guerrero in Los Angeles
CUBA, May 21, 2010. An exhibition of the art and poetry of Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States, will be inaugurated on Saturday at the Gallery of the former Venice Prison, in California. More...
Portugal in Solidarity with The Five
PORTUGAL, May 19, 2010. The Cuban film season "Five Films, Five Friends," in Porto, Portugal, denounces the injustice against The Five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in US prisons for over twelve years. More...
Canadian Brigaders Updated on The Five
CUBA, May 17, 2010. The Canadian "Ernesto Che Guevara" Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba was updated on Monday on the case of The Five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in US prisons during an encounter with relatives of these fighters. More...
Habeas corpus in Favor of Gerardo Hernandez
CUBA, May 15, 2010. The defence team of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cubans antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the US, will apply for habeas corpus on June 14, in an effort to have his case re-examined. More...
Chileans Urge Obama to Release the Cuban Five
CUBA, May 12, 2010. The Chile-Cuba Solidarity Movement urged US President Barack Obama to end the unjust imprisonment five Cuban antiterrorists have suffered for more than 11 years in the U.S. More...
Venezuela Demands Freedom for Cuban Antiterrorists Imprisoned in the US
CUBA, May 12, 2010. Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Jorge Valero, demanded on Tuesday the release of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States. More...
Solidarity with the Cuban Five in Saint Lucia
Demanded in Zimbabwe the immediate Release of the Cuban Five Antiterrorists.
ZIMBABWE, May 7, 2010. The Cuba-Zimbabwe Friendship Association (ZICUFA) and the Committee for the Liberation of the Cuban Five in Zimbabwe demanded yesterday the end of the US Blockade to Cuba and the immediate release of the Cuban Five comrades who are unjustly imprisonment in North American jails. Both organizations also had the opportunity, together with the staff of EmbaCuba Zimbabwe, to bid farewell to the outgoing Cuban Medical Brigade which worked for 2 years in the African country. More...
Intense Activity to Free the Five in the US
CUBA, May 7, 2010. Exhibitions and encounters in several US cities during May and June include an intense agenda of the International Committee for the Liberation of the Five Cuban Anti terrorists jailed in the United States for more than a decade. More...
Grenada, 5 May 2010. The Cuban Community in Grenada gathered this Wednesday to demand that the President of the United States, Barack Obama, immediately release the Five Cuban Heroes in U.S. jails, and lift the U.S. blockade against Cuba. More...
Argentine youth started to climb Pico Turquino for demanding freedom of the Five
CUBA, May 5, 2010. A group of young Argentinean mountain climbers have begun their hike up the Pico Turquino in eastern Cuba to erect a flag as a symbol to demand the freedom of five Cubans who have been held in US prisons for more than a decade for their efforts to uncover terrorist plots against Cuba. More...
Solidarity with Cuban Five in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 5th May, 2010. Today 5th May has been declared International Day of solidarity with the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States. On this day hundred of organizations around the world are organizing activities to demonstrate their solidarity with the people of Cuba and to demand the release of the Cuban Five who have been unjustly imprisoned in the United States. More...
Solidarity with the Five Cuban Heroes Intensifies
CUBA, April 27, 2010.International solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States intensifies, and the most recent examples of this support took place in France, Spain and the Republic of Seychelles. More...
April 23rd from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon (Cuba’s local time).
UCC students support Cuban 5
GHANA, 11 April, 2010. - More than 50 students of the University of Cape Coast have so far signed a petition calling for the unconditional release of the Cuban Five from prisons in the United States of America.
The students acting under the auspices of the Friends of Cuba Foundation insist on the innocence of the five Cuban anti-terrorism activists. More...
Ecuadorean Youngsters to Climb Two Volcanoes in Support of the Cuban Five
CUBA, April 8, 2010. Members of the Rebel Culture Movement from Ecuador will begin on Saturday the ascent of the Cayambe and Chimborazo volcanoes, in order to demand the release from prison of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in US jails. More...
Cypriot Parliamentarians Demand Release of the Cuban Five
CYPRUS, April 5, 2010. — Parliament members from the Republic of Cyprus signed today a Declaration in which they demand the immediate release from prison of the five Cuban anti-terrorists serving unfair sentences imposed by US courts. More...
Release of the Cuban Five Demanded in Argentina
CUBA, April 5, 2010. During a march against impunity, held in the Argentinian city of Neuquén, a group of youngsters held up a flag in favor of the release from prison of the five Cuban heroes unfairly incarcerated in the United States. More...
Cuban Five Send Message to Cuban Youth Congress
CUBA, April 4, 2010. - Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez, the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly incarcerated in the United States, sent a message to the 9th Congress of the Young Communists League (UJC). More...
Thousands of Postcards Sent to Barack Obama Demanding Release of the Cuban Five
CUBA, April 1, 2010. - The International Free the Five Committee in the United States announced on Wednesday in Washington that US President Barack Obama has received thousands of postcards demanding the release of five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998. More....
Injustice against the Five by the US Criticized in Argentina
CUBA, Mar 29, 2010.- The injustice committed by the United States against five Cuban antiterrorists was criticized during a meeting in Argentina, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the most famous image of Ernesto (Che) Guevara, taken by late Cuban photographer Alberto Korda. More....
Mother of Fernando Gonzalez Receives Dominican Resolution
CUBA, March 25, 2010. - Magali Llort, mother of Fernando Gonzalez, one of the Cuban Five, received in Santo Domingo today the original resolution of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic demanding the release of the five anti terrorists in US jails.More...
Five Cubans Imprisoned in the USA Represent Cuba
CUBA, Mar 25, 2010. - It is not mourning time, but time to fight for freedom of the Five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the USA, said Mirta Rodriguez at the 32nd National Festival of the Cuban Radio, taking place here.More...
Parliamentarians Worldwide Express Support of the Cuban Five
CUBA, Mar 23, 2010. - More than 1,000 Internet users, including parliamentarians and members of solidarity groups from Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Europe, wrote messages of support of the Cuban Five on a forum at http://foro.cubaminrex.cu which was active from March 8 to 18. A panel of Cuban parliamentarians and relatives of the Cuban Five answered to those who wrote in the forum. More...
Cuban five : Justice aborted
Luis Posada's release and confinement of Cuban anti-terror team puts US commitment to fight terror in question
In Havana, or for that matter all of Cuba, people call them “the five.” Their posters can be seen on the walls and their faces peer out of billboards on the entire stretch of the island. Just being remotely related with them assures anyone a celebrity status. Children from Kindergarten and beyond recognise them by their first names – Gerardo, René, Ramón, Fernando and Antonio. And they are members of no rock band. More...
Asia and Oceania Organizations Demand Release of Cuban Five
CUBA, March 22, 2010. - Representatives of friendship-with-Cuba organizations from 22 Asia and Oceania countries urged US President Barack Obama to use his presidential prerogatives to have five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in his country released. More...
Magali Llort to Demand in the Dominican Republic the Release from Prison of the Cuban Five
CUBA, Mar 20, 2010. - The forum for the release from prison of the five Cuban heroes incarcerated in the United States that will begin on March 22 in Santo Domingo will be attended by Magaly Llort, the mother of Fernando Gonzalez. More...
From Nigeria an appeal to Obama to free the Cuban Five
NIGERIA, March 18, 2010.- George Daika, member of the House of Representatives of the Nigeria National Assembly called on president Obama to use his executive powers to exert justice in the case of the Cuban Five. More...
Nigerian Member of the House demands freedom for the Cuban Five
NIGERIA, March 18, 2010.- Hon (Barr) Samson R. Osagie, Chairman of the House Committee on Special Duties requested the U.S. to demonstrate its commitment with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by ensuring justice in the case of the Cuban Five. More...
The World Continues Demanding the Release of the Cuban Five
CUBA, March 18, 2010. - Efforts to demand the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States continue worldwide, and a new expedition expects to knock down the wall of silence around the case. More...
Members of Serbian-Cuban Friendship Association demand the Freedom of the Cuban Five
SERBIA, March 17, 2010. - Members of Serbian-Cuban Friendship Association have condemned the hypocritical behavior of the United States administration and their judiciary, which has unlawfully imprisoned in inhumane conditions, the five innocent Cuban citizens, proven fighters against terrorism, violating their human rights for over 11 years. More...
Breaking the silence on the Cuban Five Heros in Pakistan
PAKISTAN, 17th March, 2010. The Pakistani newspaper Daily Mail offered its pages to help the campaign for the liberation of the Cuban Five Heroes. Under the title Breaking the Silence, the Daily echoed that the International Relations Commission of the Cuban Parliament calls upon all parliamentarians of the world to build another space for proposals and concrete actions directed at the United States government and Congress, to demand that their president releases these five Cuban anti-terrorists and grants visas to Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez. More...
U.S. Lawyer calls for release of the Cuban Five
CUBA, Mar 17, 2010. - Dean Hubbard, Jr. National Co-Chair of the US National Lawyers Guild (NLG) Labor and Employment Committee, called in this capital to increase the struggle for the freedom of the Cuban Five, imprisoned in that country for more 11 years. More...
Stories with Five reasons to be told
CUBA, March 17, 2010. - When you lack the strength to climb up the Turquino Peak, use the convictions and principles, said Santiago Vega, an Argentinean who climbed in January, along with two other youngster, the Aconcagua peak to demand the release of five Cuban heroes imprisoned in U.S. since 1998. More...
Ecuadorians to Climb Peaks in solidarity with the Five
CUBA, Mar 16, 2010. - Members of the Ecuadorian Youth Coordinator of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba will climb the snow-capped volcanoes "Cayambe" and "Chimborazo" to demand the Obama Administration the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the US. More...
Int’l Meeting of Youths for the Cuban Five Held in Las Tunas Province
CUBA, March 16, 2010. - An international meeting of youths to demand de immediate release of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States took place in eastern Las Tunas province with the participation of foreign students currently taking courses in the island. More...
Cuban Hero Assures He Will Climb the Turquino Peak
CUBA, March 15, 2010. - In a telephone conversation with his daughters Aili and Laura, the Cuban antiterrorist Ramon Labanino assured them that upon their return, the Cuban Five will climb the Turquino Peak, just as the two girls did as part of the “From Aconcagua to the Turquino Peak” project. More...
Letter to President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, from the Seychelles- Cuba Friendship Association
The Seychelles-Cuba Friendship Association (SECUFA) has followed closely the recent developments regarding the case of Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramón Labaniño and René Gonzalez who are now known the world over as The Cuban Five.
The Seychelles-Cuba Friendship Association sends Letter to Barack Obama
SEYCHELLES, March 14, 2010. - The Seychelles-Cuba Friendship Association (SECUFA) has sent a letter to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, in solidarity with the five Cubans known as The Cuban Five.
“I also want to climb the Turquino Peak for the Cuban Five”, says elder woman
CUBA, Mar13, 2010. - When Oria Silveira, an old woman from this eastern city, heard the news, she said: “I wish I were 30 years younger to also climb the Turquino and offer my solidarity to Fernando, Ramón, Gerardo, Rene and Tony”. More...
Wives of the Cuban Five Denounce their Case in Geneva
CUBA, Mar 12, 2010. - Olga Salanueva and Adriana Perez, the wives of two of the Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States since 1998, met with top officials from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). More...
Humanitarian Entry Visas for Wives of the Cuban Five Demanded in Russia and Bolivia
CUBA, Mar 11, 2010. - Meetings in support of Cuba in its demand of the US of humanitarian visas for Olga Salanueva and Adriana Perez so they can visit their husbands incarcerated in that country were held in Russia and Bolivia. More...
Cuba Requests Reactivation of Cuban Five's Case
CUBA, Mar 11, 2010. - Cuba requested before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva the reactivation of the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists, the detention of which in the United States was termed as arbitrary in that city, where the organization’s headquarters is located. More...
Cuban Youngsters to Climb the Turquino Peak in Solidarity with The Five
CUBA, March 11, 2010.- Journalists and students from Havana’s Institute of International Relations began a tour of the Sierra Maestra Mountains on Wednesday, which will include the ascent of the Turquino Peak, in solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States. More...
The Case of the Cuban Five Must Be Reconsidered
GENEVA, March 10, 2009.- Cuba requested on Wednesday at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to reconsider the case of the Cuban Five.
"Our country believes it is necessary to recall that the case of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in U.S. jails is still pending, the imprisonment of which was termed arbitrary," according to Anayansi Rodriguez, director of the Multilateral Affairs Department (DAM) at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More...
Cuban 5 Case Must Be Retaken, Cuba States
SUIZA, Mar 10, 2010. - Cuba requested on Wednesday at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to retake the case of the Cuban Five, the detention of which in the United States was termed arbitrary in this capital. More...
US Personalities Ask Washington to Grant Visas to Wives of Cuban Antiterrorist Fighters
CUBA, March 9, 2010. - Fourteen US personalities asked the White House to grant visas to the wives of two of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998. More...
Argentina Calls for Freedom for the Cuban Five
CUBA, March 3, 2010. - Mountaineers who climb Aconcagua in the Argentinean province of Neuquen have added their voices to the fight to gain freedom for five Cubans held prisoner for more than ten years in the United States. Pablo Fernández, who organizes treks up the Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the western hemisphere, said that some 250 postcards are being sent from the province of Neuquen to US President Barak Obama demanding the immediate release of the Cuban Five. More...
People in French Basque Country Demand End of US Blockade against Cuba
CUBA, March 2, 2010. - Residents of Bayona, a city of the French Basque County, rejected the lack of political will of American president Barack Obama to put an end to the economic, financial and commercial blockade of his country against Cuba. More...
Cindy Sheehan Denounces U.S. Imperial Policy
She acknowledged and saluted the courage of the Cuban Five and their families, and highlighted the importance of Latin America unity. More...
Re-sentenced Cuban Antiterrorist Transferred to their Prisons
CUBA, Feb 24, 2010. - The process of transferring the three anti-terrorist Cubans who received new sentences in a federal court in Miami, USA, was completed and they are now in their respective prisons. More...
Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, fighting for the five” Such cruelty is unacceptable
CUBA, February 18, 2010. SOUTH African Nadine Gordimer, 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, read out letter to President Obama calling for the release of the five Cuban heroes. Gordimer is in our country as an invited guest to the 19th Havana Book Fair. More...
Friends of Cuba in Pakistan demand US to grant Visas for the Cuban Five wives and relatives
Islamabad, 18 February, 2010. Pakistan Cuba Friendship Association in Lahore (PCFA-L) sent an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, demanding her the garanting of Humanitarian entry visa to Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva. In its letter, PCFA also asked the United States government to immediately stop violating the right of the Cuban Five relatives and to allow them to visit their unjustly imprisoned loved ones in the US. More...
Yesterday, Tuesday February 16, I met with relatives of the five Cuban political prisoners held in US jails for over 11 years. I have had firsthand experience of the drama these families are suffering. I was given the following information as confirmation of what I already had obtained. More...
Swedish Radio Station Spreads News About Cuban Five
CUBA, February 13, 2010. For 10 years now, the Swedish Radio Nuevo Milenio station has contributed to spreading in that country the injustice committed against five Cuban anti-terrorists imprisoned in the United States. More...
Peruvians Reiterate Demand for the Release of the Cuban Five
CUBA, Feb 11, 2010. - Hundreds of Peruvians delivered a letter at the US embassy in Lima, in which they demand President Barack Obama the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in his country. More...
Fight for the Cuban Five Gathers Momentum in the US
CUBA, February 9, 2010. The US coordinator of the Free the Five International Committee, Alicia Jrapko, said the fight for the release of the Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in the US since 1998 is gaining ground in that country. More...
Paintings by Cuban Antiterrorist Fighter on Display in US Cities
CUBA, February 8, 2010. A exhibition of paintings by Antonio Guerrero, one of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998 – internationally known as the Cuban Five-, will be on display in several cities of the United States. More...
International Solidarity, more Necessary than ever in the Case of the Cuban Five
Cuba, February 4, 2010. Relatives of the five Cuban heroes incarcerated in the United States for warning their country about terrorist acts against it, underlined on Thursday in this capital that international solidarity is now more necessary than ever to obtain their freedom. More...
Speaker of the Parliament of Indonesia received an update on the 5 Cuban Heroes
Indonesia, February 4th, 2010. Mr. Taufiq Kiemas, Speaker of the Parliament of Indonesia, received the Cuban Ambassador Jorge León, who offered him a detailed explanation and an update on the case of the 5 Cuban Heroes and the unjust imprisonment for more than 11 years in American prisons. More...
The South African Government reiterates its support to the cause of the cuban five
SOUTH AFRICA, January 29, 2010. - On the occasion of the celebration of the 51 Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa expressed the support of her country to the cause of the Cuban Five. More...
Patriotism of The Five Highlighted in Venezuela
VENEZUELA, Jan 28, 2010. - Venezuelan Minister of Women''s Affairs Maria Leon said on Thursday that The Five anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in US prisons are symbols of patriotism of Cuba and the world. More...
Catalan Communists: Free Cuban 5
ESPAÑA, Jan 26, 2010. - The Catalonia Communist Party (PCC) demanded Tuesday the immediate release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States for over 11 years. More...
Solidarity with the Cuban Five Strengthens
CUBA, Jan 26, 2010. - New expressions of solidarity with the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States have taken place in Spain, Portugal and Ecuador. More...
New International Campaign in Favor of the Cuban Five
CUBA, January 21, 2010. - A new international campaign in favor of the liberation of five Cuban antiterrorists, who remain as political prisoners in the US since 1998, is getting ready in Washington, with an edition of 20 thousand postcards addressed to President Barack Obama. More...
Mother of One of the Cuban Five Asks Obama to Release the Prisoners
CUBA, Jan 20, 2010. - Magali Llort, mother of one of the five Cuba anti-terrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States, appealed to President Barack Obama to have the Cuban fighters released. More...
The Cuban Five Send Heartfelt Message to the Haitian People
CUBA, Jan 19, 2010. - The Five Cuban heroes unjustly imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism have sent a message of encouragement and hope to the people of Haiti, recently devastated by a strong earthquake. More...
Argentineans Reach Top of the Aconcagua In a Call for the Release of Cuban Five
CUBA, Jan 12, 2010 In a particular gesture to express support for the release of five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism, three young Argentinean men climbed one of the world's highest mountains, the Aconcagua, and placed a flag with a logotype representing the cause of the Cuban revolutionaries, in the top of the elevation, reported PL. More....
Young Communist League Thanks South African Support of Cuban Five
CUBA, Jan 12, 2010. - The Cuban Young Communist League (UJC, Spanish acronyms) thanked the South African people for their support of the five Cuban revolutionaries unfairly imprisoned in the United States. More...
Argentinean Climbers Place Cuban 5 Flag on Top of Mount Aconcagua
ARGENTINA, January 11, 2010. - A flag demanding the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the US for thwarting terrorist actions against Cuba is flying on top of Mount Aconcagua, as a solidarity gesture by three Argentinean young people. More...
US People Reject Washington’s Blockade of Cuba and Supports Release of the Five
CUBA Jan 7, 2010. - “The people of the United States support the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned there and they reject Washington’s almost fifty-year-old blockade of Cuba,” said Kenia Serrano, President of the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP) in Havana. More...