[HCCN] Fwd: New Cuba Petition

[Judith Robbins]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "William Whitney" <atwhit at roadrunner.com>
> Date: January 28, 2011
>
> Hello
>
> If you have not already done so, please sign and circulate a new  
> petition to President Obama to free the Cuban Five
>
> It's available on line at http://tinyurl.com/pardonthe5 , or at an  
> equivalent URL http://www.change.org/petitions/view/ 
> petition_president_obama_to_free_the_cuban_five.
>
> Also accessible at that site are a new “Fact Sheet” on the Cuban  
> Five and Amnesty International’s recent report on the case which  
> impelled our "Pardon for the Five"group to devise this petition.    
> Please contact me with questions or comments at  
> atwhit at roadrunner.com  or 207 743-2183.
>
> Some background information is added below.
>
> Free the Five! Thank you,
>
> Tom Whitney
>
> ***************************
>
>  From:  Pardon for the Five
>
> Five Cuban men, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio  
> Guerrero, Fernando González, and René González, have now served 12  
> years in U.S. federal prisons. Prior to their arrest in 1998, they  
> had been monitoring violent extremists in Florida in order to  
> provide their government with advance notice of anti-Cuban  
> terrorist attacks originating from that area. A three-judge appeals  
> panel, later over-ruled, declared that their Miami trial was deeply  
> prejudiced. The Cuban Five were convicted on several charges,  
> including espionage conspiracy for three of them. They received  
> savagely long sentences despite expert testimony at their trial  
> demonstrating that they posed no risk to U.S. security interests.
>
> Now their appeal process is nearly exhausted. Their liberation  
> depends on action taken by President Barack Obama. With one voice,  
> a worldwide solidarity movement is calling for a presidential  
> pardon of the Five. Amnesty International has condemned U. S.  
> judicial proceedings and sentencing in their case as flawed. The  
> group has recently called upon the Obama administration to consider  
> clemency for the prisoners. .
>
> We ask you to SIGN the petition, and then circulate it in  
> electronic form to all your contacts. If you have access to a  
> website, we also ask you to make this petition a link on it.
>
>
>

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