Bernie Dwyer, Radio Havana Cuba, interviews Leonard Weinglass, one of the attorneys on the Cuban Five’s legal defense team, by telephone from his office in New York to get an update on the legal situation of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez

The Cuban Five, as they are known internationally, have been incarcerated in US prisons since their arbitrary arrests twelve years ago on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage and, in the case of Gerardo Hernandez, conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree. Their so-called “crime” was infiltrating terrorist groups in Miami which were planning to continue their undeclared war on the people of Cuba and the Cuban Revolution.More...

The following organizations have issued this declaration: The National Committee (U.S.) Committee to Free the Cuban Five; the International Committee to Free the Cuban Five; and the organizations of the Cuban Immigration in Miami that together comprise the Alianza Martiana (Marti Alliance): the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the Alianza Martiana as an individual organization, the Alliance of Workers of the Cuban Community (ATC), the José Martí Association, and political parties of the United States who are part of the Cuban Five solidarity movement. More...

Dear compañero Manuel Zelaya, the sole and dignified constitutional president of Honduras:

Profound indignation has shaken our cells in the face of the brutal coup d’état in your homeland, reminiscent of a past that is still fresh in the historic memory of Central America. More...

For Immediate Release
March 6, 2009

Contact: Thomas C. Goldstein, Esq.: 202-674-7594; tgoldstein@akingump.com

In a previously unheard of twelve separate briefs, array of supporters worldwide - including ten Nobel Prize winners who have championed human rights (including East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta and Irish peacemaker Máiread Corrigan Maguire); the Mexican Senate; and Mary Robinson, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland - today filed amicus curiae ("friend of the court") briefs imploring the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Miami convictions of five Cuban government agents, the so-called "Cuban Five." Those participants in the briefs were joined by hundreds of parliamentarians from the European Parliament and other parliaments around the world, including two former Presidents and three current Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, as well as numerous U.S. and foreign bar associations and human rights organizations. More...

The Cuban Five: Ten years of incarceration in US prisons

As the year 2008 ends, the Five Cuban antiterrorist fighters complete 10 years of unjust incarceration in US prisons. They remain dignified and committed in spite of the many years that have passed and the constant violations of their rights as prisoners. They also have to cope with the fact that while they are deprived of their freedom for fighting terrorism, the real terrorists, such as Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, are free to walk the streets of Miami. More...

On the tenth anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of the Cuban Five

Dear compañeras y compañeros:

We arrive at the 10th anniversary of the arrest of the Cuban Five at a crucial moment of our legal process (That is what they call it, although perhaps "illegal process" would be more appropriate.) The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Atlanta, has just ended our appeal. More...

When on 9 August 2005, a panel of three judges of the Atlanta Court of Appeal unanimously ruled to revoke the sentences and order a new trial of The Five Cuban anti-terrorists jailed in the United States, on the grounds that Miami was not an acceptable trial venue, it seemed that at last the American legal system was going to do justice, in this lengthy process full of arbitrary measures and manipulation. More...

Ramon Labañino was born on June 9, 1943. "Today he's a big, strong man that can lift me with his arms," said his father Holmes Labañino speaking of the son he once held in his arms and opened his eyes "weighing eight pounds, if I'm not mistaken." More...

Fernando looks much younger than his forty-four years. He is slim, fit, alert and in excellent spirits. Despite having spent ten years of his sentence, with at least six and a half years ahead of him, he is positive, optimistic and self-confident. He is serious, deep-thinking, and widely read with a warm and relaxed attitude that comes from his profound love of humanity and total commitment to his people and the Cuban Revolution of which he is justly proud. While enjoying debate and discussion on issues ranging from consumerism and the role of the media to global capitalism and the nature of twenty-first socialism Fernando is humbled by the solidarity he has received from his own people and the international movement. In particular he wishes to thank all those in Britain who give so sacrificially of their time while struggling with their own problems yet have managed to achieve so much in the campaign to win the freedom of the Five. He is so sorry that he can’t answer every letter he receives but that comes as no surprise when you consider the size of his post-bag with most of the mail originating in Britain. More...

The Real Horror of being a Lifer in a US Maximum Security Penitentiary

Going to visit a loved one in prison is hard enough without having the horrendous experience of hearing gun shots and shouting during the allotted time in the visitation room. Everybody is told to stay where they are while all hell is breaking loose outside in the prison yard. More...

By Lawyer Roberto Gonzalez Sehwerert

The easiest way to understand the case of the Five is to make a chronological list of the most important events starting with the appellate proceedings and adding some complementary comments. More...

Dear brothers and sisters of the world:

As the Christmas and New Year 2008 celebrations approach, we want to send you our congratulations together with all the appreciation and affection, for supporting us in this cause that unites us: solidarity with Cuba and freedom for the Five.More...

Havana, December 11 (RHC)-Adriana Perez has not seen her husband Gerardo Hernandez for nine years. Olga Salanueva has not seen her husband, Rene Gonzalez, for seven years.

Their husbands are two of the five Cuban men imprisoned nine years ago in the United States, where they were collecting information on terrorist organisations planning attacks on Cuba.

"Not only has my husband been unjustly imprisoned, his family has also been treated appallingly," writes Salanueva in a statement published by the Guardian two years ago. More...

Havana, 19 June 2009
Year of the 50th Anniversary of the Revolution

Dear Antonio, René, Gerardo, Ramón and Fernando,

The workers of Radio Havana Cuba are sending you this short letter to express our concern about the decision of the US Supreme Court not to review the unjust trial that condemned you and the way the clamor for justice from all the Cuban people and every just person in the world was ignored. More...

By István Ojeda Bello

It is very likely that US Supreme Court judges, John Roberts, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito, are ?as no other judges have been before? so near to showing how just they can be. They might not even be aware that what lies before them is a lifetime chance to prove if the judicial system they represent really works.More...

The distance hurts, but we must think that soon he could be home. The injustice against the Cuban Five has no limits. More...

United States:

Washington, D.C., Sept. 12: Press Conference and civil disobedience at the White House to demand freedom for the Cuban Five. More...

(Reuters) - A Cuban spy serving two life sentences in a U.S. high-security prison hopes an appeals court will annul convictions by a Miami jury he says was too scared to acquit him in a highly charged anti-Castro setting.
Gerardo Hernandez told Reuters by telephone from prison that he was spying on paramilitary exile groups in Miami, not the United States, when he and four members of his so-called Wasp Network were arrested by the FBI in 1998.More...

Amnesty International is once again urging the US authorities to stringently review its decision to deny temporary visas to the wives of two Cuban nationals serving long federal prison sentences in the USA, and, in the absence of reasonable and conclusive evidence for continuing for them to be withheld, to grant them temporary visitation visas so that they may visit their husbands in the US. More

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Luis Posada Carriles, mastermind of the vicious attack on Cubana Airlines Flight 455 and perpetrator of numerous other acts of terrorism, should be certified as a terrorist and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. More...

Accuse U.S. of double standard by releasing man wanted in bombing of Cubana jet in 1976

by Keith Bolender
May 29, 2007
Reprinted from The Toronto Star

HAVANA-More than 30 years have passed since Jorge de la Nuez was told he'd never see his father again, but he still remembers that afternoon like it was yesterday.More...

Charges against Cuban 'liberator' reduced without explanation

by Emilio Paz

When it comes to "good terrorism," federal prosecutors are willing to be sympathetic. Such appears to be the case when it comes to Cuban-born Robert Ferro, a California man who bought a huge arsenal for use against Cubans on the island. More

Nine years after the arrest of the Cuban Five, a growing number of people around the world call for justice. More...

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

For the five Cuban men incarcerated in US jails there may at least be one chance of justice. They were condemned on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage and acting as unregistered foreign agents...More...