Russian Solidarity Organization Reinforces Actions for the Release of the Five

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 19 (acn) The campaign for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters held in US jails for over 10 years, will be at the center of actions this year by the Russia-Cuba Friendship Association.

The statement was made in Moscow by Vadim Sayuchev, president of the solidarity-with-Cuba organization. He said that actions in favour of the release of the Cuban Five will join other efforts against the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, PL news reported.

Sayuchev added that they will deploy a stand during the Moscow Book Fair with information available to the public about Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Gerardo Hernandez and Antonio Guerrero, internationally known as the Cuban Five.

Cuban ambassador to Moscow Juan Valdes extended his thankfulness for the permanent solidarity with Cuba and alerted about the need to have the truth of the Five be spread inside the United States.

The Cuban Five were framed by FBI agents in 1998 and submitted to a biased trial in the US city of Miami, which gave them unfair and extremely long sentences (from 15 years to life terms) for charges that were not proven. The Five were collecting information on Florida-based ultra-right organizations that have undertaken terrorist acts against the Cuban people.

(Redoblan en Rusia campaña por la libertad de los Cinco)