Release for the Five Cuban Antiterrorists Demanded in Peru

HAVANA, Cuba, June 4 (acn) The release from prison of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the United States was demanded in Lima by José Ñique de la Puente, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the San Marcos Main University in Peru.

Ñique de la Puente, who heads the oldest Faculty of Law in The Americas, denounced the illegality of the harsh sentences pronounced against these five Cubans, Prensa Latina news agency reports.

The jurist participated in a talk on The Five carried out in San Marcos, during which Cuba's ambassador to Peru, Luis Delfín Pérez gave a master class on the process.

Before an audience made up of young people, many of them Law students and lawyers, the diplomat demonstrated what he termed as a vulgar manipulation of justice in the case of these Cubans.

Gerardo Hernández, René González, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero were condemned in Miami to sentences ranging from 15 years to two life imprisonments for having monitored the activities of Florida-based criminal anti-Cuban groups.

Ñique de la Puente described the sentences applied to The Five as a legal aberration and said that the release from prison of these men is demanded by his Faculty, in defence of law, justice and humanitarian principles.

He pointed out that these sentences violate all international parameters of penal justice and urged the US Supreme Court to make the Constitution of that country prevail and to order the release of these prisoners, because this is what jurisprudence states.

Their sentences, he stressed, are unconstitutional and are motivated by mere political revenge.

On the other hand, the dean reviewed the attacks against Cuba, including the most recent ones, and expressed that these acts justify the mission of The Five to obtain information on terrorist plans against their homeland, as an action in self-defence.