Cuban Fives

[yns_mr]

Who are them? What did they do? It's probable that USA keeps them under captivity because they are Cuban but what is their reason for this?

[Lenin II]

The Cuban five's names are René González Sehwerert, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Fernando González Llort and Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez.

They ae five young Cuban men, who are anti-terrorist fighters and human rights defenders, and they continue to be arbitrarily imprisoned for more than eight years in United States jails. On September 12, 1998, the five were arrested and taken to the Miami headquarters of the FBI where they were interrogated non-stop for six hours without the presence of a lawyer. They were all sentenced to lengthy sentences.

And their reason? The US hates commies. That's what it comes down to.

[Janus]

The five men—Gerardo Hernández, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, and René González—were in Miami on an internationalist mission from the Cuban government to collect information on ultrarightist groups of Cuban-Americans that have had a long record of bombings and other violent attacks against Cuba organized from U.S. soil. They were arrested and jailed in 1998. They were convicted three years later.

In addition to the charge of conspiring to commit espionage, Gerardo Hernández was convicted on a count of conspiracy to commit murder. The latter charge was in connection with the shooting down by the Cuban Air Force of aircraft piloted by members of Brothers to the Rescue, a group of Cuban-American rightists based in Florida with a record of provocations against Cuba. Its pilots violated Cuban air space in 1996 and refused warnings to turn back. Brothers to the Rescue had violated Cuban air space previously, dropping leaflets on Havana that asked Cubans to rise up against their government. Hernández is serving a double-life term for allegedly passing along information that assisted Havana in defending its airspace from the unannounced incursions of the group.

Labañino and Guerrero are serving life in prison. Fernando González and René González are serving 19-year and 15-year terms, respectively.

“The Cuban Five maintain their efforts were restricted to gathering information on violent Miami-based right-wing groups,” the Cuban News Agency reported August 10. “The goal was to keep Cuban and U.S. citizens from being the victims of terrorist acts promoted by individuals like Luis Posada Carriles, a confessed assassin accused of being behind the blowing up of a Cuban airliner killing 73 persons.”

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