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Int’l
Youth Meeting in Solidarity with the Cuban Five Concludes on
Monday
HAVANA, Cuba, June 13 (acn) Participants in the Third
International Youth Meeting of Solidarity with the five Cuban
antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United
States —which concludes on Monday at Havana’s National School of
the Young Communist League— are sharing ideas and experiences,
particularly on the use of new information and communication
technologies in the struggle for the release of these five men.
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The last day of sessions includes the interactive Internet
forum “Freedom
Now. End the Injustice. Free Them Now!” (http://foros.cubava.cu),
in what
is another effort for the release of Gerardo Hernandez,
Ramon Labañino,
Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez
—internationally
known as the Cuban Five.
The meeting in solidarity with the Cuban Five has brought
together more
than 180 youths from 33 countries, including young Russian
parliamentarians and representatives of the Solidarity
Committee of San
Francisco, United States.
At the end of the meeting, the delegates will issue a Final
Declaration,
which is expected to include a call urging U.S. President
Barack Obama to
free the Cuban antiterrorists.
On Sunday, while addressing participants in the event, the
president of
the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon,
insisted on the
innocence of the Cuban Five, who were arrested and given
harsh and unjust
sentences for monitoring extreme right-wing groups in South
Florida that
were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against the
Caribbean nation.
“That was precisely their only fault: fighting terrorism,”
he pointed out.
“The U.S. Government was not able to present evidence of
their crime and,
on the contrary, there is plenty of irrefutable evidence
showing their
innocence,” Alarcon added as he criticized the silence of
the mainstream
media on the case.
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