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Peruvian Solidarity Committee Asks US Deputies to Interfere in Favor of Cuban Five

CUBA, Aug 19, 2009.- The Peruvian Committee of Solidarity with the Cuban Five asked American Congress members to interfere in favor of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the US.

The organization handed a document to a delegation of American legislators visiting Peru in which they demand that President Barack Obama adopts the necessary measures to have the Cubans released from jail, reported Prensa Latina.

Indigenous deputy Hilaria Supa delivered the text that points out that Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Fernando Gonzalez – internationally known as the Cuban Five- will soon have served 11 years of unjust imprisonment.

“They were unfairly condemned for crimes they did not commit and their freedom has been demanded all over the world,” says the document.

The Cuban Five are kept in different jails in the United States, away from each other, notes the document and adds that the United Nations has described their imprisonment as arbitrary and unjust.

The five Cuban men were arrested in 1998 for warning their country of violent acts organized by terrorist groups based in South Florida.

They were tried and convicted to long sentences – ranging from 15 years to two life terms - in 2001 in a Miami Court after biased and unjust .(Cubaminrex-AIN)

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