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Brazilian Lawyers Consider Suit to Free Cuban 5

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PL via Granma International - Aug 18, 2006
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/agosto/vier18/35comi...

Brazilian lawyers study lawsuit to free the Five

BRASILIA, August 18 (PL).-- Efforts to free the five Cuban heroes imprisoned
in the United States acquired fresh impetus today with support from the
National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) of the Brazilian Order of
Attorneys (OAB).

That organization promised to go before the OAB's Federal Council to bring
an international lawsuit demanding the release of Gerardo Hernández
Nordelo, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Fernando González Llort, Ramón
Labañino Salazar and René González Schwerert.

After examining the case, the CNDH decided to request that OAB national
president Roberto Busato coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Itamaraty) for support from the Brazilian government for a recommendation
made by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.

That UN group ruled as illegal the arrests of the five Cubans, who were
dedicated to alerting their country to terrorist activities against it
being plotted by mafia organizations in the United States.

That group said that those sentences imposed on the antiterrorist fighters
violate Paragraph 14 of the United Nations International Convention on
Civil and Political Rights, to which the United States is a signatory.

In face of that situation, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions
determined that U.S. authorities should take steps to free the five Cubans,
which did not occur.

In a parallel manner, this case is being studied by the national OAB at the
request of Pedro Núñez Mosquera, the Cuban ambassador in Brazil, and Mirta
Rodríguez Pérez, mother of Antonio Rodríguez, one of the Five.

The diplomat and Mirta met on June 19 with Aristóteles Atheniense, vice
president of the OAB, who decided to bring the matter to the attention of
the organization's International Relations Commission, which after studying
the case asked for it to be considered by the CNDH.

The CNDH met two days ago with leaders of 10 OAB commissions in Teresina,
in the Brazilian state of Piauí, and was led by the commission's president,
Edisio Simoes Souto.

During the meeting, the secretary Joelson Dias described the adverse
conditions of bias under which the Cuban patriots were tried and sentenced,
and the injustices committed against them and their families.

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