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Africans Demand Release of Five Cuban Antiterrorist Fighters

CUBA, September 17, 2007.- Guinea Bissau joined on the ongoing worldwide campaign for the release of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez, internationally known as the Cuban Five, who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States nine years after they were detained for infiltrating terrorist anti-Cuba organizations based in Florida.

During a rally in solidarity with the Cuban Five held in the city of Cachungo, in the northern part of that African nation, leaders of several organizations such as the Association of Revolutionary Pan-African Youths, the National Youth Confederation, the Association of Academic Students of the Amilcar Cabral University, and the National Association of Graduates in Cuba, read messages condemning the government of the United States and demanding the immediate release of the five Cuban political prisoners.

According to Granma news daily they also rejected Washington's economic blockade against the island and its double standards in the so-called 'anti-terror war' recalling that, while they keep these five men imprisoned, they released international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

Similar rallies in solidarity with the Cuban Five were held over the weekend in several African countries, including Botswana, where friendship and solidarity groups in the city of Maun inaugurated their campaign for the release of the Cuban heroes that continues until October 8th.

(Cubaminrex-AIN)

 

 

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