[Ppnews] International Committee on Gerardo Hernandez' Legal Situation

[Political Prisoner News]

Statement from the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
August 12, 2011

The coming weeks will be critical in the upcoming 
closure of the Habeas Corpus process for Gerardo 
Hernández Nordelo, condemned unjustly to two life 
sentences. The US government continues to deny 
Gerardo his basic right to be heard by the justice system.

On April 25, U.S. prosecutor Caroline Heck Miller 
asked the federal court of Miami to reject his 
extraordinary Habeas Corpus appeal. On that 
occasion we asked: "What does the prosecution 
fear by letting Gerardo exercise his right to 
present his arguments to the court and request alleged evidence against him?"

New evidence has emerged that the Miami 
journalists who demonized the five in their 
coverage leading up to and during the trial, thus 
creating bias and influencing the jury, received 
a quarter of a million dollars from the U.S. 
government. This obstruction of justice by the 
government is one of the arguments Gerardo plans to present at the hearing.

For the past 12 days the Cuban Parliament has 
denounced the U.S. government's denial of access 
to legal documents related to his case as arbitrary actions against Gerardo.

Together with 10 Nobel Prize winners, thousands 
of artists and intellectuals, parliaments and 
governments (paraphrasing recent statements by 
Obama) we say: It is time that Gerardo Hernández 
and his four compañeros are freed. Even if just 
for humanitarian reasons, after 15 years of 
unjust imprisonment, it is time that the Five be 
freed. We do not expect something different from 
U.S. courts, but we believe that the U.S. 
government should make the right decision to 
allow the return of the Five to their families.

Obama can use his executive powers outlined in 
the U.S. Constitution to liberate the Five. It's 
time for him to listen to international demands and end this injustice.

Please send telegrams, faxes and e-mail to the 
White House and all U.S. embassies based in your 
country demanding an end to the illegal and 
arbitrary treatment against Gerardo Hernández Nordelo.
To send an e-mail message visit: 
<http://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACT>HTTP://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACT

Phone: 1 + 202. 456-1111

Fax: 1 +202. 456-2461

Address:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20500
EE.UU.

International solidarity will continue until the 
Five return to their homeland and their families.

International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5.



Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

415 863-9977

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