3-28-09, 12:09 pm

HAVANA, Cuba, March 28 (acn) An unprecedented event in the history of the United States, a gesture of solidarity with Cuba and the Cuban Five, has been silenced by the US media, reported Granma newspaper.

In a commentary entitled “Ten Nobel Laureates Address the US Supreme Court' Granma states that on March 6, twelve amicus curiae briefs were presented to the US Supreme Court in support of a January 30 petition presented by Cuban Five defense lawyers to re-examine the case.

The petition represented the largest number of amicus ever presented before the US Supreme Court for the revision of a trial, and is signed by 10 Nobel Prize winners: José Ramos Horta, President of East Timor; Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; Rigoberta Menchú; José Saramago; Wole Soyinka; Zhores Alferov; Nadine Gordimer; Günter Grass; Darío Fo; and Máiread Corrigan Maguire.

It also includes the support of the entire Mexican Senate; the Panamanian National Assembly; Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland (1992-97); and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), who signed the amicus presented to the US Court. Joining them were hundreds of legislators from around the world, as well as organizations of lawyers and legislators.

Granma highlighted that this event would have made headlines in newspapers and radio and television newscasts in the United States and in any other part of the planet, if it weren’t related to an irrefutable and also unprecedented act: the support of Cuba and the Cuban Five, unjustly imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism against their country and in the world.

The publication pointed out that the self-proclaimed champions of freedom of speech, the United States, has surrounded the case in a veil of silence.

From the Cuban News Agency