Press Release from the International Comm. to Free the Five

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"Press release from the International Committee to Free the Five

THE U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will not review the case of the five Cuban patriots. This decision prevents our five brothers, unjustly incarcerated for more than 10 years for monitoring terrorist organizations based in Miami, from having even the possibility of a fair and impartial trial outside of Miami.

The same justice system that is rejecting the possibility of reviewing the case of our five brothers, has granted the defense team of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles a further year of grace to enable it to better prepare its case. This is the same system that has left unpunished dozens of criminal organizations based in Miami. The same system that has failed to investigate a single claim brought against those perpetrating attempts on the lives of our peoples.

It is the same system that has ignored the ruling of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, which declared the imprisonment of the Five arbitrary and illegal. With this decision, the court is making a mockery not only of their defense lawyers’ appeal, but also the universal demand of 10 Nobel Prize winners, dozens of jurists, and parliamentarians and organizations from all over the world who expressed in 12 "Friends of the Court" documents the need to review a case plagued with violations since the very moment the Five were arrested.

It comes as no surprise to us from a system that allowed the legalization of the most atrocious torture and which accepts with impunity the fact that, while five innocent men are unjustly imprisoned, criminals like Posada, Bosch, Basulto and Frómeta – among many others – freely walk the streets of Miami.

This day will remain marked on our calendars as a day of shame for the U.S. judicial system and of the Obama government’s failure to act in the face of terrorist groups that are holding justice to ransom.

It also will be marked as the beginning of the new resistance that from this moment will make itself felt throughout the world until we achieve the freedom of Gerardo, Ramón, René, Antonio and Fernando.

We will no longer wait to hold an International Solidarity Event marking another year of their arrest. It will be expressed in the thousands of ways in which we the peoples know how to transform pain and indignation into struggle, on the streets outside U.S. embassies, in the universities, in Parliaments, in churches, with our modest resources and modest means, but with all the strength that truth and the right give us.

Because we are convinced that, as Gerardo said on hearing the news, "as long as there is even one person fighting on the outside, we will continue resisting until justice is done."

This International Solidarity Event to Free the Five begins today and will be extended every day of our lives until they return home free to their homeland.

We call on our friends in the world to more than ever demand of the Obama government that it end this colossal injustice and order the immediate liberation of the Five. •

Translated by Granma International "
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/junio/mar16/Five-2.html