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May 19, 2014 News
After spending 15 years in prison, one of the Cuban Five, Rene Gonzalez met with President of the Guyana Solidarity Movement with Cuba, Halim Khan in Cuba, recently.
September 2013 marked the 15th anniversary of the detention of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino Salazar, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, and Rene Gonzalez Schewerert.
The Five were detained while monitoring from the city of Miami, the movements and activities by violent groups and individuals engaged in planning terrorist acts against Cuba, which led to thousands of deaths and people with disabilities for more than 50 years.
This case was described as a political case and the Cuban Five were labeled political prisoners.
Last year, René González was released after serving his time and returned to his homeland.
The President of the Guyana Solidarity Movement with Cuba explained that Gonzalez commended the work of Guyana Solidarity Movement in its fight for the freedom of the Cuban Five throughout the years.
Khan said during all these years only Gonzalez’s mother Magali Llort, his sisters Lourdes and Martha, his wife Rosa Aurora Freijanes and other family members were able to visit him. And even they averaged only one visit a year.
He explained that despite this form of isolation, like his four brothers, Gonzalez received on daily basis volumes of mail of solidarity that filled the mail rooms of the prisons.
On Sept. 12, 1998, a heavily armed FBI SWAT team arrested the members of the Cuban intelligence network in Miami. The five agents were tried under hostile circumstances and convicted on low-bar charges of “conspiracy to commit” everything from espionage to murder and sentenced to impossibly long prison terms, including one double life sentence, plus 15 years.
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