SOUTH African Nadine Gordimer, the 1991 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, denounced the unjust jailing of the Cuban Five, the anti-terrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States, describing the U.S. justice system as a farce, and calling on the world to join forces to win freedom for René González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González y Gerardo Hernández.

The Five — as they are known internationally — have suffered physical and mental torture, serving sentences handed down to them in frame-up trials, due to a jury of dubious competence in Miami, the outstanding writer affirmed in a letter published by The New York Times, and she compared their situation with what used to happen in South Africa under the apartheid regime.

Likewise, the National Committee of the Communist Party USA, joining in the international campaign in solidarity with the Five, issued a statement saying that their example and conduct reflect the achievements of the Cuban Revolution; it also criticized the irregularities committed in the legal process they were subjected to.

Meanwhile, in Quito, Ecuador, the book 5 Hijos 5 héroes, privados de su libertad por defender a Cuba (5 Sons, 5 Heroes, Deprived of their Freedom for Defending Cuba), was launched at the Guayasamín Foundation in the presence of Ecuadorians in solidarity with Cuba. (SE)

Translated by Granma International

Granma 05-10-2005