Dublin, Oct 4 (Prensa Latina) In a stunning show of support for the Miami Five, 49 members of the Irish Parliament have called for their release in a letter sent to the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales.

The cross-party support of the parliamentarians is testament to their concern for the human rights of the Cubans, who have just entered their eighth year in custody in the USA.

The legislators´s letter reminds Mr Gonzalez that the "11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously declared null and void the decision of a Miami court to jail Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, Ramon Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez and Fernando Gonzalez Llort, and has ordered a retrial on the grounds that, due to political pressures and manipulations surrounding the Miami process, they were not given a fair and impartial trial."

They are serving tough sentences from 15 to double life in prison.

On August 9, the US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in Atlata reversed their convictions and remanded a new trial. The Miami fiscal attorneys have asked the appellate panel to reconsider its decision.

Mr Gonzales is perhaps most famous for his legal advice to the US President suggesting that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the USA.

He can now add the illegal detention of innocent persons to his legal credentials. His position would be untenable in any society where the Rule of Law and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights applies.

The Five Cubans have also had their imprisonment declared unjust by the United Nations. Yet Mr Gonzales refuses to release them.

They were trying to stop Miami based terrorist groups from carrying out violent actions against the people of Cuba. They were found guilty of charges ranging from murder to espionage by a court in Miami. The case -legal analysts- agree was saturated with irregularities.

The Atlanta Court of Appeals considered Miami was not the proper site for the defendants to get a fair trial due to the brewing anti-Cuban feelings in that city. So, it remanded a new trial in another location.

Legal experts point to the Five being innocent of the charges brought against them, as extensive intimidation of jurists by these same terrorists was a feature of the trial.
Many Irish have joined a campaign underway for the release and exoneration of the Cuban Five, "who are victims of this obvious miscarriege of justice."

The campaign is dedicated to the memory of the 3,478 Cubans killed and 2,099 maimed at the hands of US-based terrorists groups since 1959.

* He´s a leading Irish activist involved in the campaign of solidarity with Cuba.