Release the Cuban Five

Mr. President Barack Obama

On Septembre 12 1998, Five Cubans were arrested and imprisoned in the United Status: Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, René González and Antonio Guerrero, who were living in this country at that time.

They were condemned at a trial with no due guaranties and evidence to unjust sentences, from 15 years to two life sentences. The lack of evidences has been recognized even by the US Attorney General`s Office (in 2001), and still the Cuban Five are serving their hard time in faraway and distant prisons.

The Cuban Five are victims of a political trial, and the US legal system has demonstrated that if you are a Cuban you can simply be arrested and incarcerated.

The United Nations Committee of Arbitrary Detentions has been concerned on this case, and agreed on the questioned of the conditions the trial was held.

The Cuban Five has gained world recognition because during the last 12 years they have a unbreakable awareness of being innocent. Their only crime was to defend their country, and even the people of the United States, from terrorist actions by the Miami-based anti-Cuban mafia.

Since September 1998 the Cuban Five has gone through many constrains and hardships, even their families have been punished, because the United States Government has not allowed their visits, in a franc violation not only of the International Law, but also the US Constitution concerning human rights of inmates.

The President of the United States can and must order the release of the Cuban Five, and from the peoples of Africa, the aforementioned below signatories, demand justice and plead for their immediate liberation.