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Voices Worldwide Rise against a Terrible Wrong

CUBA, June 18, 2009. The International Free the Five Committee has called on its friends around the world to demand, more than ever, Obama's government ends this colossal injustice and order the immediate release of the Five.

The Committee's communiqué expresses that the decision "prevents our five brothers, unjustly incarcerated for more than 10 years for monitoring terrorist organizations based in Miami, from having even the possibility of a fair and impartial trial outside of Miami", Granma newspaper reports.

It continues to say that "the same justice system that is denying the possibility of reviewing the case of our five brothers, has granted the defence team of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles a further year of grace to enable it to better prepare his case. It is the same system that has left dozens of criminal organizations based in Miami unpunished."

It adds that "with this decision, it is making a mockery not only of their defence lawyers' appeal, but also the universal demand of the 10 Nobel Prize winners, dozens of jurists, parliamentarians and organizations from all over the world who expressed in 12 "Friends of the Court" documents the need to review a case plagued with violations from the very moment of the Five's arrest."

"It comes as no surprise to us from a system that allowed the legalization of the most atrocious torture and which accepts with impunity the fact that, while five innocents are unjustly imprisoned, criminals like Posada, Bosch, Basulto or Frómeta - among many others - are at liberty on the streets of Miami."

This day, stressed the document, will remain marked on our calendars as the day of shame for the U.S. judicial system and of the inaction of Obama's administration in the face of terrorist groups that are holding justice to ransom.

It will also be marked, reads the communiqué, as the beginning of the new resistance that from this moment on will make itself felt throughout the world until we achieve the freedom of Gerardo, Ramón, René, Antonio and Fernando. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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