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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
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December 2006 – Deputies from the European
Parliament's main parties advanced a draft
written declaration asking the United States to
allow relatives of the Five to visit them in
prison. The signatories are Spain’s Ignasi
Guardans (CiU, Liberal Party) Portugal’s Ana
Maria Gomes (Socialist Party), Cypres'
Panayiotis Demetriou (European Popular Party),
France's Gerard Onesta (Green Party) and
Germany’s Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann (European
Unitary Left).
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5 October 2006 – EU deputy Pedro Guerreiro asked
the session: what is the chair of the Council
going to do to ensure the most basic rights of
the Five are respected, including the right to
be visited by their relatives, that their
sentences are revoked and that they undergo a
fair trial?
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September 2005 – Spanish EU deputies Willy Meyer,
from Izquierda Unida (United Left Party), Miguel
Angel Martínez, from Partido Socialista Obero
Español (Spanish Socialist Worker's Party) and
Bart Staes, from Belgium's Green Party, signed a
letter addressed to the Attorney General of the
United States, demanding the release of the
Five.
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October 2003 – Deputies from the European Unitary
Left sent a letter to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs and the Regional Delegation for
relations with Central America and Mexico,
asking the European Union to take action before
the pertinent US authorities and calling for the
holding of a new trial. They also pronounced
themselves with respect to the violation of the
human rights of the Five and their relatives.
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October 2003 – The Vice-chairperson of the ACP -
EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the
President of the Group of Friendship with Cuba
Miguel Angel Martínez sent to the head of the
European Parliament's Delegation for relations
with Central America and Mexico, Raimon Obiols,
a letter describing the violations endured by
the Five and announcing his intention of
advancing a parliamentary question in this
connection at the Council and/or Commission.
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22 October 2003
– At this day's European Parliament session, EU
deputies Pedro Marset Campos, Konstantinos
Alyssandrakis, Ioannis Patakis, Ilda Figueiredo
and María Luisa Bergaz Conesa advanced
parliamentary questions related to the United
States' violation of the human rights of the
Five.
PARLIAMENTARY UNION
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October 2005 – More than 50 members of parliament
from around the world, who participated in the
113th General Assembly of the World
Parliamentary Union, signed an Appeal calling
for the release of the five anti-terrorist Cuban
activists, who are still unjustly detained in US
prisons, in spite of the ruling handed down by
the Atlanta Court of Appeals, which overturned
the trial in which they were convicted.
LATIN AMERICAN PARLIAMENT (PARLATINO)
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December 2006 – The 22nd Ordinary
Assembly of the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO)
approved a resolution urging “competent US
authorities to immediately release the five
Cuban citizens…”
ACP – EU JOINT PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
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12 October 2003 – The Parliamentary Women’s Forum
held on the occasion of the 6th ACP
(Africa – Caribbean – Pacific) – EU (European
Union) Joint Parliamentary Assembly, issued a
declaration which condemned how US authorities
had denied Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez the
right to visit their husbands, who are
imprisoned in the United States.
PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAS
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December 2003 – the Parliamentary Women Network
of the Parliamentary Conference of the Americas
approved a resolution denouncing how Olga
Salanueva and Adriana Pérez were denied visas to
enter the United States and visit their husbands
in prison.
CENTRAL AMERICAN PARLIAMENT
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September 2006 – Chairman of PARLACEN Julio
Palacios presented a motion in favor of the
release of the Five at the 2nd Ibero-American
Parliamentary Forum. The motion was presented at
work panel 1, on the topic of migrants and human
rights.
GREAT BRITAIN
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February 2006 – Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter,
110 members of the British parliament, London
mayor Ken Livingstone and 15 general secretaries
of British unions are some of the personalities
among the 10,000 English citizens who signed an
open letter sent by the Solidarity with Cuba
Campaign to the Attorney General of the United
States, asking for the immediate release of the
Five.
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21 November 2002 – Labour Member of Parliament
Michael Connarty introduced an emergency motion
at the House of Commons about the five Cubans
imprisoned in the United States which was backed
by 112 members of the British Parliament.
IRELAND
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February 2006 – 49 members of the Irish
Parliament, including 8 senators, requested the
release of the Five in a letter addressed to the
Attorney General of the United States Alberto
Gonzales.
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20 November 2003 – At the Irish Parliament’s
Lower House of Commons, 26 members of Ireland’s
Labour Party signed a petition calling for the
release of the Five and a new trial.
RUSSIA
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October 2005 – 18 federal deputies of Russia’s
State Duma signed an open letter addressed to US
Attorney General Alberto González, calling for
the release of the Five. Among the signatories
were Guennadi Ziuganov, leader of the Communist
Party of the Russian Federation, V.A. Kupsov,
Vice-Chairman of the Duma and V.I. Sebastyanov,
Chairman of the Russia – Cuba Friendship
Parliamentary Group.
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7 March 2003 – The Duma (Russia’s lower House)
approved, with 287 votes in favor and none
against, an Appeal issued by the State Duma of
the Assembly of the Russian Federation,
addressed to the US Congress, in connection with
the judicial sanctions imposed upon the Cuban
citizens.
MEXICO
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28 September 2006 – Senate approved a point of
agreement calling for the validation of the
opinion of the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detentions of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
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10 July 2003 – 300 Mexican legislators signed a
document expressing their deep concern over the
arbitrary detention and summary trial, plagued
with irregularities, to which five Cuban
citizens were subjected in Miami, Florida, USA.
ARGENTINA
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September 2005 – 26 deputies from the Argentinean
Congress sent a letter to the Attorney General
of the United States, asking for the immediate
release of the Cuban Five, held illegally in US
prisons since 1998.
BELGIUM
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February 2006 – 32 members of Parliament in the
House of Representatives of the Belgian Senate
and the European Parliament signed a declaration
on the violation of the human rights of the Five
in the United States.
SWEDEN
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23 March 2005 – Question posed the Swedish
Minister of Foreign Affairs by deputy from the
Left Party Sermin Osurkut, substitute member of
the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Swedish
Parliament, about the case of the Five
imprisoned in the United States and Sweden’s
position with respect to US support for
terrorist actions against Cuba.
MALI
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2 June 2006 – A plenary session of the National
Assembly of Mali approved a motion in solemn
support of the Five, vigorously condemning the
treatment they are subjected to and demanding
their immediate release. In addition to this, it
“solemnly calls on all colleagues around the
world to organize a powerful solidarity and
support movement to obtain the release of the
Five and have them return to their country”.
CANADA
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20 April 2006 – Canadian parliamentary member and
spokeswoman for the Quebecois Party for Foreign
Affairs Francine Lalonde addressed a letter to
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter
MacKay, asking him to “apply pressure on the
United States to obtain the immediate release of
the Five”.
GERMANY
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September 2006 – the Bundestag Left Faction
addressed a letter to its colleagues in the US
Congress, asking for their support in the
struggle for the release of the Five, imprisoned
in the United States for fighting against
terrorism.
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July 2006 – Twelve members of the German
parliament sent a letter to the US Congress,
demanding respect for human rights and the
immediate release of the five Cuba
anti-terrorist activists. The signatories
included the Chairwoman of Parliamentary
Commission on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid,
Professor Herta Daubler-Gmelin and ex Secretary
General of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD)
Klaus Uwe Benneter.
BRAZIL
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August 2006 – The Commission of Human Rights of
the Brazilian House of Representatives passed a
“motion of condemnation against the illegal and
arbitrary prison of Five Cubans in the United
States”. This motion was send to the President
of the US House of Representatives.
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June 2006 – A solemn session of the Municipal
Legislative Assembly was held in Recife in
honour of the Five.
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On 24 May, the Commission on Human Rights of the
Legislative Assembly of the Brazilian state of
Minas Gerais held a public hearing on the
situation of the five young Cubans who are
unjustly imprisoned in the United States for
fighting against terrorism.
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March 2006 – A motion in solidarity with the Five
and their families was signed by more than 32
ministers in Porto Alegre and sent to the US
Department of State, the Bush administration’s
Attorney General and UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan.
VENEZUELA
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July 2006 – At a plenary session of the Latin
American Parliament, the Venezuelan
Parliamentary Group approved a resolution urging
US authorities to immediately release the Five
and calling on the General Assembly of the Latin
American Parliament to back this document. A
copy shall be sent to the US President, the
Attorney General the Secretary of State of the
United States, the UN Commission on Human Rights
and the Chairs of the Latin American Parliament.
BOLIVIA
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September 2006 - The House of Representatives
passed a declaration demanding the immediately
liberation of the Cuban Five.
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30 August 2006 – The Bolivian Senate unanimously
approved a declaration calling for the immediate
release of the Five.
SPAIN
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3 October 2006 - The Green Left Parliamentary
Group poses the government the following
questions with respect to the case of the Five
and the protection afforded notorious terrorist
Luis Posada Carriles by the US government: What
opinion does the Spanish president have of these
facts? And is the government planning any
diplomatic initiative before the Bush
administration in order to call its attention to
these evident irregularities, such that justice
is done in the case of the Five?
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22 December 2005 – The Green Left Parliamentary
Group poses the government the following
question: has the government plans to take steps
before the US administration to demand respect
for human rights in the case of the Five?
PANAMA
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October 3, 2006 – The Commission of Foreign
Relations of the National Assembly of Panama
passed a resolution expressing its adhesion to
the “growing world clamour asking for a fair
trial, a fair jury, a due process and the right
to have family visits for the Cuban Five.”
ITALIA
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November 2006 – More than 35 Italian senators
sent a letter to the US Senate expressing their
worry for the political use of the Cuban Five
case and remembering the importance of the
international cooperation in the war against
terrorism.
(ICAP)
31-12-2006
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