| CUBAN FIVE |
| Statement of comrade Dew Gunasekara, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka on the release of Cuban Prisoners |
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| The Cuban Five Are Free and in Cuba! | |
Who are the Cuban Five?
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The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are unjustly imprisoned in the United States after being arrested by the FBI on Sept. 12, 1998 and convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami in 2001, in a political prosecution by the U.S. government. They are Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González.* The Five were falsely accused by the U.S. government of committing espionage conspiracy against the United States, and other related charges. |
| The Five’s actions were never directed at the U.S. government. They never engaged in nor planned any conspiracy against the government.
As the Cuban Five pointed out in their defense, they were on a mission in Miami, beginning in 1990, to monitor the actions of Miami-based terrorist groups, in order to prevent those groups from carrying out attacks on their country of Cuba. They never harmed anyone nor ever possessed nor used any weapons on their mission. Their objective was simply protecting people from terrorism. |
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