5-16-09, 9:48 am
NUEVA GERONA, May 16 (acn) An Internet Forum promoted by Cuban journalists on the cause of the five antiterrorist Cubans held in US jails received the solidarity and support of people in several nations of the world.
Messages sent from Venezuela, Poland, Belize, Ecuador, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Germany and Argentina backed the request that the US Supreme Court takes the case Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Gerardo Herandez, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, internationally known as the Cuban Five.
The defense team of the Five recently took the case to the US Supreme Court, while in an unprecedented way the action was backed by 12 amicus curiae by outstanding world personalities and organizations.
The Cuban Five were arrested and submitted to a biased trial in the US city of Miami in 2001, which gave them unfair and extremely long sentences (including life terms) after they collected information on ultra-right organizations based in US territory, and which have undertaken terrorist actions against the Cuban people.
The forum took place parallel to a national workshop of the 4th Common Front of Ideas, organized by the Cuban Journalists Union (UPEC) in the Isle of Youth, its venue south of Havana.
The workshop, presided by UPEC vice-president Antonio Molto, allowed for an exchange of views among journalists on the relationship between the press and the community. In that direction representatives of media outlets like Victoria and Juventud Rebelde newspapers contributed interesting experiences.
At the center of discussions was the need to provide the Cuban people with an economic culture by means of dealing with the subject with more intensity and in the community media. The workshop contributes to strengthen the unity between intellectuals, the Communist Party, the government and organizations.
Prior to the event, participants attended a commemorative ceremony to mark the 54 anniversary of the release of Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries, who attacked the Moncada Garrison in 1953, from the Presidio Modelo prison in the Isle of Youth, where they were held during 20 months.
