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Press Release from the International Committee to Free the Five

THE U.S. Supreme Court of Justice has announced that it will not
review the case of the five Cuban patriots. This decision prevents our
five brothers, unjustly incarcerated for more than 10 years for
monitoring terrorist organizations based in Miami, from having even
the possibility of a fair and impartial trial outside of Miami.

  The same justice system that is denying the possibility of reviewing
the case of our five brothers, has granted the defense team of
international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles a further year of grace
to enable it to better prepare the case. It is the same system that
has left unpunished dozens of criminal organizations based in Miami.
The same system that has failed to investigate one claim brought
against those perpetrating attempts on the lives of our peoples.

  It is the same system that has ignored the ruling of the UN Working
Group on Arbitrary Detentions, which declared the imprisonment of the
Five arbitrary and illegal. With this decision, it is making a mockery
not only of their defense lawyers' appeal, but also the universal
demand of the 10 Nobel Prize winners, dozens of jurists,
parliamentarians and organizations from all over the world who
expressed in 12 "Friends of the Court" documents the need to review a
case plagued with violations since the very moment of the Five's
arrest.

  It comes as no surprise to us from a system that allowed the
legalization of the most atrocious torture and which accepts with
impunity the fact that, while five innocents are unjustly imprisoned,
criminals like Posada, Bosch, Basulto or Frómeta - among many others -
are at liberty in the streets of Miami.

  This day will remain marked on our calendars as the day of shame of
the U.S. judicial system and that of the inaction of the Obama
government in the face of terrorist groups that are holding justice to
ransom.

  It will also be marked as the beginning of the new resistance that
from this moment will make itself felt throughout the world until we
achieve the freedom of Gerardo, Ramón, René, Antonio and Fernando.

  We will no longer wait to hold an International Solidarity Event
marking another year of their arrest. It will be expressed in the
thousand ways in which we the peoples know how to transform pain and
indignation into struggle, on the streets outside U.S. embassies, in
the universities, in Parliaments, in churches, with our modest
resources and modest means, but with all the strength that truth and
the right give us.

  Because we are convinced that, as Gerardo said on hearing the news,
"while there is one person fighting on the outside, we will continue
resisting until justice is done."

  This International Solidarity Event to Free the Five begins today and
will be extended every day of our lives until they return home free to
their homeland.

  We call on our friends in the world to more than ever demand of the
government of Obama that it end this colossal injustice and order the
immediate liberation of the Five. .

  Translated by Granma International