[NYTr] Cuban Five Case Discussed at India University

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Cuban Five Case Discussed at India University

Havana, Oct 1 (acn) Participants to a symposium held at the Jawaharlal 
Nehru University, in New Delhi, condemned the injustices committed 
against five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in US prisons.

The meeting, called "Struggles and popular movements for an equitable 
society", was attended by a large audience of university students, 
professors and scholars.

Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, 
and René Gonzalez, internationally known as the Cuban Five, were 
detained in 1998 for trying to prevent terrorist actions against the 
island organized by right-wing anti-Cuba organizations based in 
Florida. The Five were charged with espionage and punished with overly 
harsh sentences despite the antiterrorist nature of their mission. They 
have been in jail in the US for over 9 years now.

Dallamy Díaz, official at the Cuban embassy to India, briefed the 
audience on the current situation of the Cuban Five and denounced the 
US government's policy of double-standard with regards to terrorism.

Diaz noted that the Bush administration has offered protection to 
confessed international terrorists such as Luis Posada Carriles while 
the Five are kept behind bars for crimes they never committed.

The Cuban diplomat also blasted the economic, financial and commercial 
blockade imposed on the island by the successive US administrations 
over the last four decades.

Established in 1969, the Jawaharlal Nehru University is a multicultural 
institution that today ranks as one of the most prestigious 
universities in India and also in Asia.