Request for New Trial in Different Venue: New Evidence Found of Serious Violations

Motion for retrial includes documents and affidavits of experts and witnesses that prove improper behavior of prosecution and judge during the trial of the five Cubans in Miami.

The motion, submitted before the Miami Court demanding a new trial, analyzes the violations of the Florida Attorney General’s Office and Judge Lenard, and includes several attachments with documents and affidavits that prove the fairness of the petition and the need for a new trial of the five Cubans outside Miami-Dade county, based upon this newly discovered evidence as well as in the interests of justice.

Alarcon in UN Assembly: They are Being Treated with Abominable Cruelty

"Five young Cubans were unjustly punished for acting against well-known terrorist groups that operate freely in Miami. They are being treated with abominable cruelty, and are even being deprived, along with their families, of visiting rights. A new trial to compensate for the grave violations committed there against due process has been requested by their defense team, with the support of distinguished U.S. jurists. That motion presented today to the Federal Court in South Florida deserves the support of all, as it would allow the reestablishment of a rule of law in a case of vital importance, because it essentially involves the attitude held, in actual practice and not only in rhetoric, with regard to terrorism and its accomplices."

Statement Delivered by H.E. Mr. Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, President of the National Assembly of People's Power, at the Plenary of the United Nations General Assembly, under item “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba”. New York, 12 November 2002.

(Embassy of Cuba in Canada)