Signed by SPP Secretary General Filemon Medina, the document reiterated the organization’s claim for the release of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, known by the international campaign for their freedom as the Cuban Five.

Medina told Prensa Latina news agency that the Cuban Five can be called heroes because when a person decides to defend the physical integration of his home nation, even at the cost of his life or freedom, that person can be called a hero.

He criticized the fact that the Cuban Five were sentenced to outrageous terms in a biased trial without not even having evidences of the crimes they were charged on.

On related news, a group of Yemeni youths who studied in Cuba reportedly condemned the imprisonment of the Cuban antiterrorist fighters.

 
A press release posted in the Cuban foreign ministry’s website says the youths sent a message to the Cuban government signed by the president of the Graduates Association of the province of Abian, Anuar Mabrook Naser, in which they state that they will continue denouncing the injustice committed against the Cuban Five until they return to their families in Cuba.