Last year, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta ruled that the sentences given to Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez “were imposed incorrectly” and sent them back to Judge Joan Lenard who, in the presence of a jury, will have to give them new sentences.

Ramon Labañino and Antonio Guerrero are serving life terms while Fernando Gonzalez was sentenced to 19 years. The two other Cuban antiterrorists, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, who are serving two-life terms and fifteen years, respectively, were not benefited with the re-sentencing ordered by the Atlanta appeals court.

The Cuban Five, as they are known internationally, were arrested by FBI agents in September 1998 for having infiltrated anti-Cuban terrorist organizations and were tried in 2001 in Miami, in the middle of a hostile environment.

The biased trail led to unfair and extremely hard sentences on charges that were never proved, as the Atlanta court had to admit. For over a decade, the Cuban Five have received harsh treatments in US jails, which violate their human rights.

The international campaign for their release has spread all over the world, where hundreds of solidarity committees and organizations have been created for that purpose.

National Parliaments, scholars, renowned figures, including 10 Nobel Prizes, among others, have pleaded for their immediate release.