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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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