Havana, Nov 25 (AIN) Washington has denied six-year-old Ivette Hernandez the right to visit her father, Gerardo Hernandez, who is being held in a US prison.

This violation of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child is being protested by a group of Argentinean legislators who object to the US government’s denial of the right to family visitations by the loved ones of the “Cuban Five.”

To enable such visits, a group of Argentinean legislators have demanded the United States to grant entry visas to the families of Hernandez and four other Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the US for having fought terrorism.

In a declaration presented before the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress, the signatories requested the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, to intervene in the Bush administration’s decision.

The Legislators requested Arbour to mediate in favor of the families of the five – Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino and Fernando Gonzalez.

The Argentinean lawmakers also urged immediate authorization for two of the wives, Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, to visit their husbands, Gerardo and Rene, and approval for a visit by Ivette Gonzalez, daughter of Rene Gonzalez. The declaration asserted that these five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters were able to prevent more than 170 terrorist attacks on the Cuban people.

These onslaughts had been organized by right- wing Cuban-American organizations based in Miami. Gerardo, Ramon, Fernando, Antonio and Rene were arrested and sentenced in a rigged trial in Miami for having infiltrated right-wing groups that have for the last 40 years planned, organized and executed terrorists acts against Cuba.

The mission of the Cuban political prisoners, internationally known as the “Cuban Five,” was to gather information and prevent terrorist actions against Cuba.