An e-mail message by the solidarity organization headed by Gloria la Riva, explained that it’s happy to announce that it’s about to achieve the goal of publishing a full page ad on the important newspaper The Washington Post, to demand the immediate release of the five Cubans.

It specifies that today, June 8, 2011, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the unjust sentence of the five Cuban heroes, the organization set itself the goal of publishing the ad in September, with the support of many organizations and people.

The note denounces that a decade of the political and judicial outrage committed against the five Cuban antiterrorists has passed, when a jury in sentenced them, following charges for political reasons brought by the US government.

The Five were arrested in Miami on September 12, 1998, and illegally put in solitary
confinement for 17 months, before the beginning of the trial in November, 2000.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez –it reads- were put behind bars and isolated, amid the hysteria of the media in Miami, a US city famous for sheltering terrorists against Cuba, who operate with the impunity given by the US government, states the note by the Committee.

After the trial –it underlines- it was discovered that many of the journalists in Miami were secretly receiving money, as spokespersons of the government stations of propaganda, Radio and TV Marti.

The note informs that the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five has been working very hard over the last two years on an important investigation, to bring to light the role of the US government to manipulate the coverage of the media to the detriment of the case of The Five.

It adds that all those involved in the struggle for the release of these Cubans are fully aware of their hard struggle in the US legal system, because we’re not talking about –it states- a court system based on justice.

In March, 2004, the National Committee published a full page ad on The New York Times to demand the release of Gerardo, Ramon, Antonio, Fernando and Rene, which represented a great step forward in the censorship practiced by the media.
We’re convinced that this is the moment for a full page ad, asserts the note by the Committee, which points out that solidarity-with-Cuba groups, organizations and people supporting the Cuban Five have generously donated the funds for the campaign.