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ACN
03/16/2010
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa questioned the US´s moral authority to judge the situation of human rights in other countries while “it has legalized torture and violates the human rights of Cubans in US prisons.”
During his weekly report to the nation, the Ecuadorean leader referred to the situation of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez --internationally known as the Cuban Five-- who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism.
Correa said that “they are not even allowed to see their relatives” in spite of being in prison for several years already.
Meanwhile, in Geneva, Rene´s wife, Olga Salanueva, spoke before the UN Human Rights Council about the situation of the Cuban antiterrorists.
During an interactive discussion with the working groups on Arbitrary Detention and on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Salanueva spoke of her case and that of Adriana Perez, Gerardo´s wife, who have been repeatedly denied visas by the US Government to visit their husbands in prison.
The Cuban Five were tried and given harsh and unjust sentences after a biased trial in Miami where they were arrested for monitoring anti-Cuba extreme right groups that were planning and carrying terrorist actions against the Caribbean nation.
