Cuban Embassy in China, please help save the Chinese people arrested by the United States Secret Service
recently sent a letter to the Cuban Embassy in China, "Global Times" and "Global Network", I hope the Chinese people through this channel to help save the five were arrested by the FBI, the unfair trial by the United States "Cuban hero."
hero was inhuman abuse
help the Cuban Embassy in the letters that the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States of Gerardo inhuman treatment, health is bad. He was held in a narrow space, living in isolation, the U.S. authorities even allowed his wife to visit for many years. Help letter concluded: "This must stop immediately. We hope that the U.S. government Gerardo responsible for the health and body. Let each of us, everyone send voice, Zhengjiu Gerardo, a hero, a bit of innocent people should be free-living! "
" They live in caves, 2 people sharing a meter-wide cell, ventilation thanks to head a small hole, I do not know if there is a light, how they eat. "July 30, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro held talks with hundreds of young men, he suddenly changed the subject, speaking of being held in California prisons in the five Cubans.
the United Nations to promote the U.S. release
2005 年 5 27, the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a statement to the U.S. government, said the imprisonment of these five defendants are arbitrary , and urged the U.S. government to take necessary measures to rectify the situation. This is the first time the group appeared on the U.S. judicial process to condemn violations. These defendants have been commuted, at present, commutation of sentence for further efforts to continue.
Castro said the U.S. authorities have already taken prisoner in 1998, Gerardo Cuban agents kept in isolation "hole", even if the illness is also not out of Gerardo. "He was locked up in maximum security prisons, the prison itself constituted by a deep hole, he was locked up in a cave deep hole," Castro said. According to Cuban state media, Castro said that Cuba is facing pressure to release "will never be locked up in this place, never victims of such abuse," the American spy. But Castro did not identify the pressure come from.
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5 Cubans in the United States was sentenced
1959 after the success of the Cuban revolution, a large number of anti-Castro Cuban who fled from out of which more than half of the people living in the United States, Florida, continued to plot the overthrow of the Cuban regime's activities.
the five Cuban Five were all born in the sixties of last century, the Cuban Communist Party members, in the last century to the mid 90's immigration status to enter the United States. Their mission is entrenched into the "internal terrorist groups in Miami to monitor those seeking to carry out terrorist attacks against Cuba, organizations and groups, will be the latest attack on the information returned home, to an early alert."
1998 In September, they were arrested. Was held in a separate cell for 17 months, they were brought to court, charged with a vague charges: conspiracy to espionage. Finally, in political intentions, the public and the media hype and so prejudice "old passions" role, the jury sentenced the five defendants guilty of all charges. Their total sentence of life imprisonment for up to 4 years in prison plus 77 years. Among them, Gerardo addition to espionage, but also carry a "first-degree murder."
three years ago, Cuban airspace and frequency of harassment by anti-Cuban aircraft, the Cuban official warned the United States, said Cuba "will defend its own airspace." Shortly thereafter, one had entered Cuban airspace 25 times, old people driving by the anti-aircraft crash in Cuba, 4 crew members. The United States for the sentiment of revenge from the crash. According to the Global Times
