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Cuban 5 Hearing Fruitful

CUBA, Aug 21, 2007.- Outstanding Chilean Jurist Juan Guzman said the defense team of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States succesfully showed the prosecution office's bad performance in the process of 2001.

Guzman, who attended Monday the presentation of the defense team's allegations before three judges assigned by the US Court of Appeals 11th Circuit in Atlanta, said the team proved that Miami, United States, was not a good place for that trial.

After that process, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Ramon Labanino, universally known as the Cuban Five, were unjustly condemned to harsh sentences ranging from 15 years to double life imprisonment.

The jury was biased and there were allusions by the Attorney General's office that taxpayers were paying for a trial of those "who were trying to destroy United States," stated Guzman in a phone interview to the Cuban roundtable TV program.

The legal expert and former judge in the Chilean Pinochet case said that at the end of the hearing it was clear the jury was far from impartial, rather afraid and ready to rule against the Five.

International Committee to Free the Five coordinator Alicia Jrapko expressed satisfaction with the support of many world figures.

(Cubaminrex-PL)

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