After serving 13 years of unjust imprisonment for monitoring the activities of Florida-based extremist groups, the patriot will have to stay in US soil after coming out of prison on October 7.
   Keeping him in the United States without his family, which has been banned from visiting him, represents an additional punishment, a revenge of political nature, asserted Rodriguez in statements to media outlets cited by the Prensa Latina news agency.
   Likewise, the diplomat denounced that the judicial decision of keeping him
under “supervised release” in US territory endangers his safety, since there are anti-Cuban terrorist groups and groups of organized crime in that country.
   After holding official talks with his Brazilian counterpart Antonio Patriota, Rodriguez pointed out that if President Barack Obama releases The Five –as they’re know internationally- it would be a humanitarian gesture very much appreciated by their relatives and by the Cuban people.
   The release from prison of Rene, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez would be the redress of a serious injustice, he stressed.
   The Cuban FM added that there’s evidence of the payment to journalists by the US Department of Justice so they spied on the jury and on Judge Joan A. Lenard herself and wrote articles distorting the image of The Five.
   He also denounced the inhuman treatment received in prison by these Cuban fighters, who’re serving sentences ranging from 15 years to two life imprisonments plus 15 years.
   After a spurious trial, without procedural rights, they were condemned in a place (Miami) in which the US government itself considers it’s impossible to hold a trial with impartiality on any issue related to Cuba, stated Rodriguez.