MADRID, August 14 (PL).—The Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) today asked the Spanish government to take interest in the fate of the five Cuban anti-terrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

The petition is contained in a PCPE statement on the August 20 appeals hearing in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta of the case of Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, René González and Fernando González.

Known as the Cuban Five, the defendants will once again present the fallacy of the charges of espionage, which have not been proven, and put forward arguments on the political nature of their trial and the injustices committed against them.

The PCPE states that this is another opportunity to demand the unconditional release of all five, unjustly incarcerated since September 1998.

The petitionl notes that the Five were sentenced to long prison terms, including a double life term, for defending their people from terrorist groups funded, instructed and protected by the U.S. government.

It recalls that in May 2005, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions determined the illegality of the court proceedings, which contravene the UN International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, and urged Washington to remedy the situation.

The PCPE reiterates its commitment to the struggle for the freedom of the Five and calls on the Spanish solidarity movement to set up all kinds of actions in support of the Cuban anti-terrorists.

It asks the Spanish government to take interest in the group’s situation and demands that the United States ends its collaboration with anti-Cuban terrorists in Miami and tries or extradites self-confessed criminals like Luis Posada Carriles to countries claiming them.

Translated by Granma International

(Granma) 14-08-2007