Cuban Youth Call Int”l Solidarity Meeting on Cuban 5

Cuban Youth Call Int''l Solidarity Meeting on Cuban 5 Havana, Jan 31. – The Union of Young Communists called on youth and student organizations worldwide to take part in the 3rd International Solidarity Conference for the Cuban 5, with antiterrorists unfairly held in U.S. prisons since 1998.

The goal of the meeting, scheduled for June 12-13 in Havana, is to break the wall of silence built by the US government to prevent the public from knowing about the case of the five men, whose legal proceedings are plagued with irregularities.

In a press release, the UJC called on young people of good will worldwide to unite, as they have done many times, and join in the defense of truth and justice, because "the struggle for the release of The Cuban Five is a battle against terrorism."

Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez were given harsh sentences for informing on the plans of violent actions against Cuba conceived by terrorist groups based in U.S. territory.

The text says that Washington continues disregarding human dignity with total irrationality, ignoring arbitrarily the statements of international bodies and creating legal and political obstacles of all kinds that prevent a solution to release The Cuban Five.

Only real mobilization of public opinion will achieve the needed influence to attain the justice the Cuban people are fighting for, says the UJC statement, published by Juventud Rebelde newspaper.

Humanity is in a time of transcendental historical importance, and it is young people who are responsible for this victory for a better future, the organization said.(Prensa Latina)