Doctor Gill Boehringer, professor, lawyer, and former Dean of the aforementioned
university’s Faculty of Law, and Joanne Kuniansky, member of the Free the Five Committee in the Australian capital, were the main speakers.

Boehringer focused on the process and its legal flimsiness, the violations of the due process of the law, and the illegality of the sentences given to Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez.

For her part, Kuniansky tackled the human and political aspects of the trial and the double standard of the US government, which has tried and condemned these innocent Cubans for the sole fact of defending their homeland from terrorist actions planned in US territory.

The two lecturers emphasized that the case of the Cuban Five is rather a political trial rather than a legal case, in which the US government has shown its hatred and aggressiveness toward the Cuban people, the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s web site reports.

The audience at this center of high studies, which has some 32,000 students, was mainly made up by students from the faculties of Humanities and Law, who showed their interest in the case and requested explanations in order to deepen into the knowledge of this case.