Argentine Workers Ask Obama to Consider Cuban Five Case

hAVANA, Cuba. The Central of the Argentinean workers trade-union federation has sent a letter to US President Barack Obama requesting to consider the petition presented by the defense of the Cuban Five.

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and Rene González —known internationally as the Cuban Five— are unjustly incarcerated in the US.

The men were arrested over 10 years ago for warning Cuba on the terrorist plans organized by Florida-based counterrevolutionary groups, the actions of whom, have resulted in thousands of Cubans being killed and others wounded or mutilated, besides costly damage to the country’s
economy.

The Argentine trade union federation’s message notes that the legal process against the Cuban Five has been contrary to the constitutional principles of Amendments 5, 6, 8, and 16 of the US Constitution, reported Granma newspaper on its web site.

The request to Obama adds that the treatment of the Cuban Five also violates article 26 of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man; Articles 5, 10 and 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Articles 5 and 8 of the American Convention on Human Rights; and Articles 9, 10 and 14 of the International Pact of Civil and Political Rights.

The Argentine organization has based its request on "the 12 Amicus Curiae presented before the US Supreme Court of Justice in support of the petition submitted by the defense lawyers of the Cuban Five on January 30, requesting that their case is re-examined.”


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