[Ppnews] Cuba's Alarcon demands that President Obama free the 5

[Political Prisoner News]

International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
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Alarcon: Unrelentingly demanding that President 
Obama free the 5 will be our promise
of the New Year

Excerpt from a speech by the President of the 
National Assembly of the Republic
of Cuba, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, on the 
occasion of the 50th anniversary of
Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)

...with the power that the imperialists have they 
have been able to practice against
the Cuban population the most prolonged genocide 
in history. In the meantime, they
provide shelter for their worst assassins such as 
the one who lives in Miami and
   recently published an infamous book where he 
boasts of his crimes.  At the same
time they unjustly imprison 5 Cubans who 
sacrificed their lives to save their fellowmen
from the evil deeds of terrorists that Washington 
has tacitly tolerated and granted
impunity.

Now, the day is coming when the US has to respond 
to the petition of Habeas Corpus
on behalf of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, which is 
his last legal recourse. At the
same time the media in Miami is miserably and 
cowardly slandering him and trying
to deceive and diverting attention to confuse the 
solidarity movement. Other from
the right of Cuba to defend its sovereignty, 
there was not any evidence produced
to directly link Gerardo Hernandez to the alleged crime. At this juncture they
are trying to  trick us and make us forget that 
in May 2001, in a dramatic and urgent
demand before the Court of Appeal, the 
prosecutors recognized that they were lacking
proof of direct knowledge and requested to modify 
the original accusation presented
against our compañero. Despite that, he was 
sentenced to an extraordinary amount
of time for a crime that he did not commit or 
could have physically carried out.
It is hardly possible to find a similarly planned injustice.

We have made a call to the solidarity movement 
and to all honest people to raise
their voices in defense of Gerardo. The United 
States government knows he is innocent
and that they never had any proof to accuse him. 
We have to demand that they free
him now. To free him and also Ramon, Antonio, 
Fernando and René, five Heroes of
the Republic of Cuba. President Obama can and 
should free them right now, without
conditions, immediately. All of them, and each 
and every one of the Five without
exception.

Unrelentingly demanding that President Obama free 
them will be our promise for the
New Year. Let the whole world continue to ask 
President Obama to free them. He knows
that he can and that he should do it.

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