Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) The only Cuban living in Cambodia asked Michelle Obama on Monday to intercede as a wife and mother for the relatives of five Cuban prisoners in the United States.

  Osleidys Hernandez sent a letter to the US First Lady asking for her humanitarian intervention to allow Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands in prison.

Demands for humanitarian visas for the wives of Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez have been supported by institutions like the World Council of Churches, among others.

The US government is violating the legal and human rights of Perez and Salanueva by considering them as threats to national security.

Based in Cambodia for years, Osleidys Hernández invoked Michelle Obama's status as a daughter, mother and wife, in a letter provided to Prensa Latina by diplomatic sources.

"You can understand how painful it is to be separated by force from our loved ones and how frustrating it is not to give them a sentence of consolation, a tender look or a touch of love," wrote Hernandez.

The International Commission for the Right to Family Visits wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, demanding such visas.

Cuban groups living abroad are also defending the right of these wives to see Hernandez and Gonzalez, who, along with Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino, have spent a decade in US jails after thwarting terrorist actions against Cuba.