Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González were arrested in September 1998 in Miami. Since then, they have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons on frame-up charges. Convicted in June 2001, they were given draconian sentences.">Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González were arrested in September 1998 in Miami. Since then, they have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons on frame-up charges. Convicted in June 2001, they were given draconian sentences.">

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Who are the Cuban Five?

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, René González, Antonio Guerrero, and Fernando González were arrested in September 1998 in Miami. Since then, they have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons on frame-up charges. Convicted in June 2001, they were given draconian sentences.

Charges included both acting as an unregistered foreign agent and conspiracy to do so, the use of fraudulent identities and documentation, and conspiracy to commit espionage. Hernández was also charged with “conspiracy to commit murder,” for which he was given one of his two life sentences. The trial and media coverage was marked by the U.S.government’s decades-long hostility to the Cuban Revolution.

Known internationally as the Cuban Five, they had been gathering information on right-wing Cuban exile groups in Florida that have a long, well-documented history of carrying out violent attacks against Cuba.

The international campaign to win their freedom is gaining support from trade unions, community and legal organizations, and prominent individuals. In October 2010, Amnesty International issued a report calling on President Barack Obama to “review the case and mitigate any injustice.”

Come and learn about this important defense case and how you can get involved in the campaign to win freedom for the Cuban Five. Following the presentations,there will be time for discussion and Q&A.

Tuesday February 8 6-8pm
Founders Library/Howard University
500 Howard Place
Washington, DC

Panel Participants will include:

Leonard Weinglass, (one of the attorneys on the Cuban Five’s legal defense team)
Kathryn Striffolino, International Advocacy Director (Latin America), Amnesty International
DC Committee to Free the Cuban 5

For more information contact Kamau Benjamin kamaubenjamin@... (202) 986-5839 and/or Omari Musa musaman1001@... Sponsored by the DC Metro Committee to Free the Cuban Five and Howard University Department of Systems and Computer Science

Source: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/120438

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