HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) - Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban
Parliament said Thursday that he hopes the United States Supreme Court will pay heed to the humanity demand for a review the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly incarcerated in the US.
The Cuban Five, as Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez are known internationally, have been
serving unfair and disproportionate sentences in US jails for the past 10 years.
Alarcon introduced the Spanish translation, in 6 volumes, of the amicus curiae briefs filed last January 30th in support of the request made by the Cuban Five´s defense team for the US Supreme Court to review the case made.
He pointed out that 10 Nobel Prize laureates, East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchu, Jose Saramago, Wole Soyinka, Zhores Alferov, Nadine Gordimer, Gunter Grass, Daro Fo and Mairead Maguire are among the personalities who signed the amici curiae.
Also the Mexican Senate, Panama´s National Assembly, Mary Robinson former Irish President (1992-1997)and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002) among others, filed their amici briefs with the US Supreme Court.
The US Supreme Court received all these documents last March, pointed out Alarcon at the Jose Marti Memorial in this city and he added that the US Court Justices can realize that the amount and quality of the amicus curiae briefs has no precedent in the history of that entity, thus showing the universal interest in the case.
According to the US Constitution President Obama has the power to end this arbitrary and unjust situation, said Alarcon. Obama, as any jurist knows perfectly well, has the authority and right to pardon, to eliminate, reduce, and modify sentences or withdraw the accusations in any case, he added.
Alarcon concluded by saying that he hopes the US Supreme Court pays heed to what practically all humanity is asking for, if President Obama fails to do what is right in this case.
