Freedom for the five cubans imprisoned in the United States!

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, et al.

11/10/2007

Opinión

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For more than nine years now, five Cubans have remained imprisoned in the United States. On their shoulders rest lengthy convictions, resulting from a politicized trial held in the city of Miami. The Five were helping monitor the terrorist plans orchestrated against Cuba from Florida by far right-wing Cuban groups.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, attached to the UN’s former Commission on Human Rights, declared their detention to be arbitrary, and a three-judge panel, tasked with examining the case at the Atlanta Appeals Court, unanimously agreed to nullify the trial and instructed that the sentences delivered in Miami be repealed. Afterwards, in a split vote, the Court dismissed that decision; and the case is still going through the appeal process.

The Five have remained in isolation in maximum security prisons, under ruthless conditions of seclusion, in violation of their human rights and of the very laws of the

United States

. Two of them have been deprived of the right to be visited by their wives.

We join our voices to all those in the world that call for the immediate end to this enormous injustice. We must not give up on this endeavor until truth prevails and these men return to their homeland and to their families.

Initial signatures:

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentina; Nadine Gordimer, Sudáfrica; Wole Soyinka, Nigeria; Zhores Alfiorov, Rusia; Noam Chomsky, EEUU; Danny Glover, EEUU; Ignacio Ramonet, España/Francia; Alice Walker, EEUU; Danielle Mitterand, Francia; Cindy Sheehan, EEUU; Oscar Niemeyer, Brasil; Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay; Manu Chao, Francia; Pablo González Casanova, México; Tariq Alí, Pakistán; Gianni Vattimo, Italia; Mario Benedetti, Uruguay; Alicia Alonso, Cuba; Frei Betto, Brasil; Armand Mattelart, Bélgica; Howard Zinn, EEUU; Fernando Pino Solanas, Argentina; Silvio Rodríguez, Cuba; Luis Eduardo Aute, España; Gianni Miná, Italia; W. J. T. Mitchell, EEUU; Thiago de Mello, Brasil; Mumia Abu-Jamal, EEUU; Ramsey Clark, EEUU; Istvan Meszaros, Hungría/Reino Unido; José Luis Sampedro, España; Jorge Sanjinés, Bolivia; Roberto Fernández Retamar, Cuba; Blanca Chancosa, Ecuador; Daniel Viglietti, Uruguay; Arturo Corcuera, Perú; Suzy Castor, Haití; Piero Gleijeses, Italia/EEUU; Hildebrando Pérez, Perú; Rafael Cancel Miranda, Puerto Rico; Miguel D\'Escoto, Nicaragua; Samuel Ruiz García, México; Juan Mari Bras, Puerto Rico; Miguel Bonasso, Argentina; Gonzalo Ituarte, México; Roy Brown, Puerto Rico; Atilio Borón, Argentina; Víctor Víctor, Rep. Dominicana; Stella Calloni, Argentina; Miguel Urbano, Portugal; James Cockcroft, EEUU; Maribel Permuy, España; Gustavo Iruegas, México; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuador; Volodia Teitelboim, Chile; Emir Sader, Brasil; Luis Britto Garcia, Venezuela; Fernando Morais, Brasil; Belén Gopegui, España; Michel Collon, Bélgica; Cintio Vitier, Cuba; Noé Jitrik, Argentina; Lucius Walker Jr., EEUU; Eric Toussaint, Bélgica; Paolo Beneventi, Italia; Alfredo Guevara, Cuba; Joao Pedro Stedile, Brasil; Michael Lebowitz, Canadá; James Early, EEUU; Juan Formell, Cuba; Isaac Rosa Camacho, España; Manuel Cabieses Donoso, Chile; Fernando Rendón, Colombia; Humberto Solás, Cuba; Wim Dierckxsens, Costa Rica; Omara Portuondo, Cuba; Osvaldo Léon, Ecuador; Medea Benjamín, EEUU; Manuel Mendive, Cuba; Constantino Bértolo, España; Salim Lamrani, Francia; Gennaro Carotenuto, Italia; Carlo Frabetti, Italia/España; Keith Ellis, Jamaica/Canadá; Víctor Flores Olea, México; Aldo Díaz Lacayo, Nicaragua; Javier Corcuera, Perú; Rosa Meneses, Puerto Rico; Matías Bosch, Rep. Dominicana; Lasse Söderberg, Suecia; Raúl Zibechi, Uruguay; Harold Gramatges, Cuba; Luisa Valenzuela, Argentina; Nalu Faria, Brasil; Ángela García, Colombia; Abelardo Estorino, Cuba; Alicia Jrapko, EEUU; Alfredo Sosa Bravo, Cuba; Jorge Riechman, España; Michele Mattelart, Francia; Fernando Pérez, Cuba; John Saxe Fernández, México; Winston Orrillo, Perú; Roberto Fabelo, Cuba; Milagros Rivera, Puerto Rico; Héctor Díaz-Polanco, Rep. Dominicana/México; Catherine Legna, Francia; Adigio Benítez, Cuba; Eva Björklund, Suecia; Daysi Granados, Cuba; Fernando Butazzoni, Uruguay; Electo Silva, Cuba; Luis Zamora, Argentina; Marilia Guimar?es, Brasil; Álvaro Marín, Colombia; Ángel Augier, Cuba; Setsuko Ono, EEUU; Santiago Alba, España; Jean Marie Binoche, Francia; Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez, México; Desiderio Navarro, Cuba; Marta Bras Vilella, Puerto Rico; Pepe Viñoles, Uruguay/Suecia; Luis Carbonell, Cuba; Tununa Mercado, Argentina; Rubens Diniz, Brasil; Gabriel Jaime Franco, Colombia; Antón Arrufat, Cuba; Al Campbell, EEUU; Ramón Chao, España; Ana Esther Ceceña, México; Manuel Rodríguez, Puerto Rico; Víctor Ego Ducrot, Argentina; Ricardo Antunes, Brasil; Gloria Chavatal, Colombia; Carilda Oliver Labra, Cuba; Gloria la Riva, EEUU; Olga Lucas, España; Rosa Elena Gaspar de Alba, México; Guillermo de la Paz, Puerto Rico; Claudia Camba, Argentina; Marcelo Ernandez Macedo, Brasil; Marta Harnecker, Chile; Celina González, Cuba; Julián Malatesta, Colombia; César López, Cuba; Brian Becker, EEUU; Alicia Hermida, España; Julio Pomar, México; Carolina Virgüez, Brasil; Rafael Bernabe, Puerto Rico; Frank Fernández, Cuba; Célia Ravera, Brasil; Alcira Argumedo, Argentina; Ronaldo Carmona, Brasil; Carlos Torres, Chile/Canadá; Nicolás Suescún, Colombia; Fina García Marruz, Cuba; Ann Sparanese, EEUU; Javier Couso, España; Jesús Chediak, Brasil; Digna Guerra, Cuba; Néstor Kohan, Argentina; Imeldo Álvarez, Cuba; Rafael Quiroz, Colombia; Francisco de Oráa, Cuba; Jane Franklin, EEUU; Manuel Talens, España; Tata Güines, Cuba; José Enrique González Ruiz, México; María José Caramez, Brasil; Eduardo Dalter, Argentina; Ricardo Gebrim, Brasil; Antonio Vidal, Cuba; Zabier Hernández, Colombia; Graziella Pogolotti, Cuba; Berta Joubert-Ceci, EEUU; Higinio Polo, España; Pablo Kilberg, Argentina; Juan Valdés Montero, Cuba; Ayrton Centeno, Brasil; Irene Amador, Colombia/España; Jaime Sarusky, Cuba; Francisco Fernández Buey, España; Jaime Losada, España; Roberto Valera, Cuba; Jalusa Barcelos, Brasil; Carlos Pronzato, Brasil; Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombia/Francia; Leonardo Acosta, Cuba; Ángeles Maestro, España; Terezinha Lameira, Brasil; Radamés Giró, Cuba; Carlos Medina, Argentina; Heloísa Fernandes, Brasil; Lisandro Otero, Cuba; Antonio Maira, España; Teresa Blanco, Cuba; Claudia Korol, Argentina; Lúcia Stumpf, Brasil; Miguel Barnet, Cuba; Montserrat Ponsa, España; Pablo Pacheco López, Cuba; Domingo Richter, Argentina; Julião Vieira, Brasil; Nancy Morejón, Cuba; Ana Ramos, España; Eduardo Wagner Ebendinger, Brasil; Esteban Llorach, Cuba; Hebernilda Isabel García, Argentina; Cecília Conde, Brasil; Pablo Armando Fernández, Cuba; Berta Riaza, España; Marcello Guimarães, Brasil; Luis Baeza, Argentina; Carmen Vargas, Brasil; Reinaldo González, Cuba; Miguel Anxo Fernán Vello, España; Eduardo Heras León, Cuba; Ana Tendler, Brasil; Mabel Albanese, Argentina; Ángel Guerra Cabrera, Cuba; Teodoro Buarque de Holanda, Brasil; Roberto Friol, Cuba; Manuel Lidón Medina, España; Marta Speroni, Argentina; Silvio Tendler, Brasil; Wander Geraldo da Silva, Brasil; Ambrosio Fornet, Cuba; Sérgio Saboya, Brasil; Silvano Humar, Argentina; Sérgio Mambert, Brasil; Ana María Muñoz Bachs, Cuba; Luciano Alzaga, Argentina; Julio García Espinosa, Cuba; Esther Contreras, España; Luciano Rezende, Brasil; José Steinsleger, Argentina/México; Vivaldo Franco, Brasil; Enrique Pineda Barnet, Cuba; Caíque Botkay, Brasil; Quim Capdevila, España; Eline Jonas, Brasil.

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