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Miami’s Media Influenced Cuban Five’s Sentences

CUBA, September 8, 2009. Miami’s media role in the Court’s ruling in the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States was highlighted by Cuban parliament president Ricardo Alarcon in an article posted today by Granma newspaper.

In an article under the title “Justice in Wonderland”, Alarcon said: “The local media not only widely covered the process but actively interfered in the case, as if they were part of the Prosecutor’s Office,” and added: “The Cuban Five were sentenced by the media even before they were tried.”

The article is the second part of a series entitled ‘The Untold Story of the Cuban Five’.

Moreover, Alarcon said that it has been recently discovered that some of the so-called journalists working for those media were paid by the U.S. government.

“Their role was not to publish the news articles, but to create an atmosphere that could guarantee the sentences. They even called the people to lead public demonstrations outside the offices where the defense lawyers were meeting and hounded the members of the jury before the trial,” he explained.

“We are talking about a group of individuals who went after the members of the jury, chased them with cameras on the streets, and recorded their cars' plates to show them later on TV.”

“They tracked them (jury members) even into the Court’s building, through the door of the jury’s room, and they kept doing this the seven months that trial procedures lasted, from the first to the last day.”

Alarcon said the Cuban Five have been surrounded by the Miami media ‘circus’ since their detention until the present, while the rest of the American media has kept silent. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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