Panama Youth Demands Cuba 5 Release
The Free The Five Youth Committee in the western Panamanian province of Chiriqui urged the US government to release the five Cuban antiterrorists, and denounced the Miami-based trial against them.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzales, Fernando Gonzales, and Antonio Guerrero are innocent of the charges brought by the attorney´s office, whose only purpose was to declare them guilty of a crime they never made, the group sustains in a release.

The Panamanian organization also criticized the penal process which, it noted, "was carried out of a desire for revenge, with legally unfounded evidence."

It was a political trial that made use of pressures, threats, and bribes for anti-Cuban groups based in Florida, to the detriment of a real investigation and process that failed to guarantee the right to defense.

The Cuba Five, as they are internationally known, had their essential human rights violated, and suffered physical and psychological tortures in US maximum security jails, the text highlights.

The sentences given are immoral and unlawful, the committee sustained, while denouncing Washington´s doble standard in the anti-terror fight by taking five people to jail for fighting terrorism.