Case of the Cuban Five

Justice denied again:

The US Supreme Court announced on June 15, without explanation, its decision not to review the case of our Five comrades who are unjustly imprisoned in that country for struggling against anti-Cuban terrorism that is sponsored by the U.S. rulers. The judges did what the Obama administration requested of it.

In spite of the solid arguments made by the defense attorneys from the obvious and multiple legal violations committed during the whole trial, by ignoring the universal backing to the petition-expressed by an unprecedented number of "friend of the Court" briefs, among them 10 Nobel prize recipients, hundreds of parliamentarians, and numerous U.S. and international jurist organisations, of outstanding political and academic personalities-the Supreme Court rejected the case, thus ignoring the demand of Humanity and its obligation to do justice.

We see manifested once more the arbitrariness of a corrupt and hypocritical system and its brutal treatment of our Five brothers.

Our struggle to win their freedom will not diminish for one instant. Now is the time to step up our actions, and not leave even one space uncovered or door unopened. We are certain that Gerardo, Antonio, Fernando, Ramon, and Rene will continue leading this battle, as they have during these almost 11 years.

Responding to the infamous decision, Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo declared: "Based on the experience that we have had, I am not surprised by the Supreme Court's decision.

I have no confidence at all in the justice system of the United States. There are no longer any doubts that our case has been, from the beginning, a political case, because not only did we have the necessasry legal arguments for the Court to review it, we also have the growing international support as reflected in the Amicus briefs presented to the Court in our favor. I repeat what I said one year ago, June 4, 2008, that as long as one person remains struggling outside, we will continue resisting until there is justice."

The above is the declaration of the Presidency of the National Assembly of Cuba on the verdict of the United States Supreme Court on June 15, 2009 refuding to review the case of five Cubans jailed in the USA since 1998 for infiltrating and exposing the Miami terrorist mafia.

(Presidency of the National Assembly of People's Power )