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In the Committee’s website, the
organization criticized the article
published in the newspaper on December 31 which demands the
return of Alan
Gross, a U.S. government contractor sentenced to 15 years in
Cuban prison
for illegally bringing telecommunications equipment into the
country,
while distorting facts about the work of Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo
Hernandez,
Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez in the
U.S.
The Committee states that the Washington Post’s piece disregards
the world
support to the cause of the Cuban Five, four of whom are serving
harsh and
unfair sentences, while another one, Rene Gonzalez, has been
forced to
remain in the U.S. for three years on probation after having
served his
full term in prison.
The daily invalidates the opinion of artists, intellectuals and
Nobel
Prize winners worldwide, and even that of U.S. former President
Jimmy
Carter, all of who defend the release of the Cuban men, said the
Committee.
Antonio, Rene, Fernando, Ramon and Gerardo were incarcerated
more than 13
years ago for monitoring the work of Miami-based terrorist
groups that
planned and conducted criminal actions against both the Cuban
and U.S.
peoples.
Except for Rene, who has already completed his prison sentence,
the rest
are facing terms as harsh as two life sentences, like the case
of Gerardo
Hernandez.
The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five,
based in
Oakland, California, is a network of people from Europe, Latin
America and
the United States who came together to take the truth about the
five Cuban
anti-terrorists to every sector of society in their respective
countries,
defend their right to family visits and fight for their release
from jail.
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Int'l
Committee Decries WaPo’s Lies on the Cuban Five Case 
