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Statement of Surinamese parliamentarian Yvonne Raveles-Resida, on the already 10 year lasting imprisonment of the five heroic Cuban fighters

September 15, 2008

September 12, 2008 it was ten years since five young Cuban men in Florida in the United States of America, were convicted on suspicion of planning terrorist activities. They are Gerardo Hernández, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino. They are known as the ‘Cuban Five’.

Because their sentencing was not done on just judicial grounds and they are imprisoned for ten years already, during which time they were denied the most fundamental human rights, such as the right to meet with family members, parents, spouses and children, we feel obligated together with everyone else who on this day expresses solidarity with these five courageous Cuban fighters, their families and the Cuban people, to call urgently upon the government of the US to immediately guarantee the fulfillment of the human rights for these Five, and to see to it that the possibility for appeal is granted to them.

This act of aggression together with other acts committed in the past against the courageous people of Cuba that is defending itself for many years against an unprecedented continuous aggression of the United States, whereby especially the economic sanctions in the form of an economic blockade and in this case an attack directly aimed at the five combative Cuban men can be mentioned.

We support the call of the American National Committee for the Observance of Human Rights and endorse the demand for the immediate release of these five combative Cuban men and their families who have been provoked for too long.

Yvonne Raveles-Resida
Deputy
National Assembly of the Republic of Suriname

(Cubaminrex- Embacuba Surinam)

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