[A-List] Cuban 5: International solidarity more necessary than ever

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Nota Bene that the former FBI chief in Miami who is
responsible for framing up and torturing the Cuban 5, has
recently -- along with the CIA -- been revealed as one of
the conspirators in the murder of Venezuelan prosecutor
Danilo Anderson; and the planning of the assassination of
Hugo ChÃvez.

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From: Michel Collon <michel.collon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:08:10 +0100
Subject: International solidarity more necessary than ever
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International solidarity
is more necessary than ever !
Urgent message from the International Committee
for Justice and Freedom of the Five

The Atlanta Court of Appeals recently issued the procedure for rehearing the
case of the Five Cuban compatriots by the 12 active judges of that court. (1)
The calendar has been set as follows:

Â	December 15th:	The defense will present its arguments to the court
Â	January 27th 2006:	The prosecution will present its arguments
to the court
Â	February 13th 2006:	The hearing will take place during the
course of this week. Arguments from both sides will be heard by the 12
judges in a plenary session. The trial will take place in Atlanta, Georgia.
Â	The defense and prosecution will have 20 minutes each to express
their arguments
Â	The case will be reconsidered by the Court based on three questions:
the Florida District Court's discretion to deny the defendents' motions to
change venue and for new trial and the process to select an impartial jury.
(2)

We believe it is essential to develop an extensive solidarity campaign and
to circulate as much information as possible regarding the severe violations
suffered by the Five and their families. An extreme example is Olga
Salanueva and Adriana PÃrez - the US government has recently denied, again,
visas for them to visit their husbands in prison.

It is absolutely necessary that the case is reported by the press and all
media within our reach, whether commercial or 'alternative'. We must make
use of advertising space and other means which will keep the topic in the
press and denounce the double standards of the US Government in its war
against terrorism: while it protects and supports criminal groups in Miami,
sinister characters such as Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosh or Hector
Pesquera, ex-chief of the Florida FBI who incarcerated, tortured and
developed a media campaign to condemn the Five Cuban Compatriots even before
the trial. Now it has become known that Pesquera participated in meetings
where the plot to murder the Public Prosecutor of Venezuela, Danilo
Anderson, on November 18th, 2004 was formed. In that meeting, which took
place in Panama, an attack against Bolivarian President Hugo ChÃvez was
planned with the presence of CIA agent Morrison and the Cuban-American and
Venezuelan mafias. (3)

The mafia paid 1, 200, 000 dollars for the horrific crime against Public
Prosecutor Anderson; shortly before his assasination the young prosecutor
had summoned to declare 400 individuals involved in the coup d'Ãtat of the
Boliviarian Republic of Venezuela in April 2002. (4)

Where is HÃctor Pesquera today?? Not a difficult question to answer. He
leads a leisurely life in the South of the United States, and holds the post
of Security Adviser for Florida Ports and Airports. Undoubtedly, the boat
Santrina, with Posada Carriles aboard, slipped into the US while Pesquera
drank whisky and turned his head in the other direction. He also chose not
to notice, when he was a super agent of the CIA and FBI, the 14 of 19
members who were training in Florida to fly into the Twin Towers on
September 11th.


It is a crucial moment in the case of the Five. The US Government and the
terrorists of the Miami mafia will grant impunity for confessed criminals
like Posada, Bosh, Pesquera, Frometa and Co. and for our Five brothers they
hope to construct another wall of injustice.

There is not the faintest sign that the US Government wants to repair the
severe damages it has caused the Five and their families, such as those
demonstrated in the Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the High Commission for
Human Rights in Geneva on May 27th; nor did they listen to plees from the 3
Atlanta judges who decided to revoke the sentences given to the Five through
93 pages of arguments stating the need for changing the hearing to another
city.

On the contrary, our Five brothers remain encarcerated in maximum security
prisons without the fundamental right of receiving visits from their wives
or a child like Ivette, who in her seven years of life has seen her father a
number of times that she can count on her fingers. Torturing the emotions of
a human being, the most complete and intimate love, when these beings are
defenseless, is what is the Five are suffering. Gerardo who is deprived of
the affection of his wife Adriana and Rene who cannot look into the eyes of
his wife, Olguita or receive the kisses of his lovely daughter Ivette. Such
scars will be with those people for life.

The US distributes the sacred right of who can receive and who can give
love, who can keep prisoners unlawfully and who can receive impunity.

What is the moral behind this perverse Empire that masacres, violates and
tortures defenseless nations, that scorns and tricks its own people, that
invents enemies, weapons of mass destruction and asymmetric wars to plunder
the resources of our peoples? How can the US speak of democracy, liberty and
human rights?

The destiny of these Five heros will be decided during that week of February
13th.
The brilliant defense lawyers have more than enough solid arguments to
expound the three questions that the 12 judges in Atlanta would like to hear.

International solidarity is more necessary than ever to support the lawyers
and the Cuban people in their mission for justice. We must make ourselves
heard with reason and truth.

We must not stop writing, even for one day, to the 1503 mecanism of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights requesting intervention in the case. We ask
personalities, intellectuals, artists and parlimentarians to send letters to
the US Attorney General, demanding the freedom of our Five brothers,
unjustly encarcerated.

We will move heaven and earth until they are freed. They well deserve it.

Graciela Ramirez,
International Committee for the Justice and Freedom of the Five

(1)	The document published by the Court appears on the website:
http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/enbanc/issues/eb01-17176issues.pdf
<http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/enbanc/issues/eb01-17176issues.pdf>

(2)	Fragments taken from Cubadebate, Working group against terrorism,
November 17th, 2005
(3)	El Nuevo Herald. Article by Gerardo Reyes and Casto Ocando, November
10th 2005
(4)	Granma International, Jean-Guy Alard, November 30, 2005


Letters to the 1503 mecanism should be sent by fax, email or post to:

Treaties and Commission Branch
OHCHR-UNOG
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: (41 22) 917 90 11
E-mail: 1503@xxxxxxxxx


Letters to the Attorney General  of the United States, Alberto GonzalÃs:

Mr. Alberto GonzalÃs
United States Public Prosecutor
US Department of Justice
950 Pennsilvania Ave, N.W
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Fax: 202 307 6777
E-mail: askdoj@xxxxxxxxx



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