The defense attorney of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in United States will denounce Tuesday political manipulations of the case at a hearing scheduled for the Atlanta Appeal Court.

Interviewed by the National Committee to Release the Cuban Five, attorney Leonard Weinglass talked of three new important issues for the Cuban 5 appeal on August 20.

Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez were detained in September 1998 in United States for protecting Cuban and US citizens from terrorism.

"We have an incredible number of topics to present before judges, but the most important ones are if Cause No. 3 against Gerardo Hernandez proceed or not, US attorney John Kastrenakes" bad behavior in his final allegation of the case, and sentences by Hernandez, Guerrero and Labanino, condemned to double life imprisonments," noted Weinglass.

"If we win these three issues," the defense attorney stressed, "it will be a fair way so the Cuban Five can return home with their relatives and compatriots in Cuba." (Embacuba Qatar-PL)

07-08-2007