Argentines Demand
Release of Cuban
Antiterrorists
The Association of
Layers of Buenos Aires (AABA)
and the American
Association of Jurists (AAJ)
demanded on Tuesday that
the Atlanta Court do
justice and release five
Cuban antiterrorists
held in US prisons.
According to a
communiqué issued by the
two organizations,
"several violations of
the US Constitution,
against legal precedents
and International Law"
were committed at the
trial of the Cuban Five,
as they are known
internationally.
The declaration says
that during the trial,
the defendants were
"sentenced for
conspiracy to commit
murder without any
evidence, espionage
without evidence of
danger or damage to the
United States."
The two associations
noted that there was "a
violation of the legal
precedent in relation to
the doctrine of the act
of the State" and the
doctrine of sovereign
immunity.
The document also
denounces the
government's
"prosecutorial
misconduct during the
original trial in
Miami."
The communiqué lists
prominent jurists who
attended the oral
hearing held on August
20, 2007, including
Chilean Judge Juan
Guzman Tapia, who put
former dictator Augusto
Pinochet in jail.
According to the two
associations of lawyers,
the observers' unanimous
opinion is that the
defense attorneys for
the Cuban Five "proved
the lack of evidence and
inexistence of the
crimes of conspiracy to
commit espionage and
murder."
For his part, Guzman
Tapia noted that
considering his
experience as a judge,
the five Cuban
antiterrorists are not
guilty of the charges
against them. |
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