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Speaking at the closing
session of the Fifth International Meeting on
Society and Its Challenges in the Face of Corruption, which
concluded on
Friday at Havana’s Convention Center, Alarcon criticized the
injustices
suffered by the Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando
Gonzalez,
Antonio Guerrero, and Rene Gonzalez —internationally known as
the Cuban
Five— and all the violations committed in the legal process
against them.
The top legislator recalled that Hernandez, Guerrero, Labañino
and
Fernando Gonzalez remain unjustly imprisoned while Rene Gonzalez
was
recently released, but he was forced to stay in U.S. territory
for three
years on probation.
In 1998, the Cuban Five were arrested and given harsh sentences
for
monitoring anti-Cuba right-wing groups in South Florida that
were planning
and carrying out terrorist actions against the Caribbean nation.
Alarcon noted that speaking of the case of the Cuban Five was
valid in a
meeting in which participants were discussing issues such as
corruption,
fraud and disrespect for the law —“all present in the process
against
them,” he added.
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President
of Cuban Parliament Urges Washington to Drop All Charges against the
Cuban Five
