Injustice against Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez will continue as long as the US population is prevented from knowing the real facts, warned Alarcon, who is also a member of the Politburo of the Cuban Communist Party.

If they knew the truth, they would demand Obama to do what he has to do: withdraw the charges and set them free, added the Cuban leader during his address to participants in the final session of the 5th International meeting on Justice and Law, held at Havana’s Convention Center.

However, “the so-called media outlets impose silence, since they don’t have much to do with information and are actually instruments of ideological control at the service of the empire”, pointed out Alarcon in the presence of relatives of the Cuban Five and of professionals from 14 nations attending the event.

He recalled that the only thing our fellow countrymen did was trying to discover and prevent criminal actions, which, against Cuba and its people, have been carried out from the United States with scandalous impunity for years, he pointed out.

Meanwhile, well-known criminals are freely wandering around the streets of the United States, among them Luis Posada Carriles, a fugitive from Venezuelan justice and the author of the sabotage against a Cubana airliner in 1976, killing all 76 people on board.

Alarcon described as clumsy and cynical the media campaign launched by the United States and Europe against the island, and reiterated the solidarity of the Cuban Parliament with the student strike in Puerto Rico, where repression caused the death of 21-year-old Natalia Sanchez, buried on Friday.

Judges, district attorneys, defense counsels, lawyers, university professors and other professionals from this sector participated in the meeting, an initiative by the Popular Supreme Court, the first edition of which took place in October, 2002.

Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, attended the inaugural ceremony of the event, in which experts from Latin America, Africa, and Europe, participated.