Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon denounced on Wednesday the confinement in a punishment cell (the hole) that Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly imprisoned in the United States, has once more been subjected to.

The president of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, announced on Thursday that the island’s legislative body will protest before the international community against the mistreatment of Gerardo Hernandez, one of five Cuban antiterrorists who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998.

The battle for the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. was one of the priorities in the Commission of the Cuban Parliament during the last six months, deputies stressed today.

The Portuguese Ilda Figueiredo, European Parliament member, said today in Istanbul, Turkey, that is unacceptable that the five Cubans antiterrorist fighters continue imprisoned in the U.S. for almost 12 years.

Organizations of the Marti Scholar Alliance are participating in a march on Saturday in Miami, the United States, against terrorism and for the release of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in this northern country.

Interview with Leonard Weinglass on habeas corpus petition for Gerardo Hernandez

The Loma del Pan in Matanzas, some 100 kilometers east of Havana was the recent location for young people to demand the release of the five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated in the US for fighting terrorism.

Activists in solidarity with Cuba will take the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the United States to the US Social Forum (USSF), scheduled for the city of Detroit, Michigan, from June 22 to the 26, and sponsored by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five.

A collateral appeal or habeas corpus was filed on Monday in the Federal Court of Miami on behalf of Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo —one of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States— as the last legal recourse for him within the US system.

Elizabeth Palmeiro, wife of Ramón Labañino, one of the five Cubans unjustly imprisoned in the United States, opens its heart to the readers to share views on 20 years of marriage, whose anniversary was marked this June 2.