As a result of public denunciation and numerous messages of protest, the Government of Washington decided to put an end to the arbitrary solitary confinement that it had imposed to Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando González, and to place them again in the general penal population, although maintaining against them several completely discriminatory restrictions.

It has been demonstrated that during a month, the Government of the United States violated the rights of the prisoners, of their lawyers and the norms of due process, seriously damaging the appeal process. Taking them now out of "the hole",  the U.S. Government is proving that never existed a "national security" justification  and that it was obliged to go back because of the denunciations and protests.

The U.S. Government has not finished yet with its arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal actions. It still maintains inadmissible prohibitions related to the use of the phone, the correspondence, the consular access and the family visits, that should be completely lifted.

It was proved the strength of the international solidarity and its capacity to act with efficacy, even in very difficult circumstances, due to the fact that the information about this issue in the big media was virtually zero.

The Government of the United States in March, 2003 has repeated  the methods and techniques that  it used before to  prevent a fair trial, that is precisely the principal question that the Atlanta Appeal Court should consider.  That is the best proof to demonstrate that that Court should dismiss the Miami farce and order the release of the five prisoners.

It is necessary to multiply and intensify the solidarity, now that we have this additional proof about the serious misconduct of the U.S. Government.

The solidarity took them out of "the hole".

The solidarity will free them.