Danny Glover and Saul Landau Visit Gerardo Hernández - (Cuban Five in US prison)

[flamingdem]

Note: This is how the USA treats a political prisoner:

“Temperatures in the hole rose to nearly 40 degrees,” said Gerardo. "I had to use my drinking water to keep me cool, pouring it on head. It didn’t help my high blood pressure. I couldn’t even take my medicine. But, I think, thanks to the thousands of phone calls and letters from people everywhere, they let me out.

http://www.juventudrebelde.co.cu/culture/2010-08-21/danny-glover-and-saul-landau-visit-gerardo-hernandez/

Danny Glover and Saul Landau Visit Gerardo Hernández

US actor Danny Glover and US writer and journalist Saul Landau spoke to the online newspaper Progreso Semanal about their recent visit to Gerardo Hernández, one of five Cuban antiterrorists being unjustly held in US jails for more than a decade now


US actor Danny Glover and US writer and journalist Saul Landau spoke to the online newspaper Progreso Semanal about their recent visit to Gerardo Hernández, one of five Cuban antiterrorists being unjustly held in US jails for more than a decade now.

Danny Glover and Saul Landau visited Gerardo Hernández at the Victorville penitentiary, a high-security federal prison for men in California, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.

As soon as he entered the visiting room, Gerardo hugged and kissed his sister Chabela, who also came to see him. Then he hugged Saul and Danny, while thanking them for their humanitarian efforts in demanding his release from “the hole,” a small solitary confinement cell where he was held for 13 days in late July and early August.

“Temperatures in the hole rose to nearly 40 degrees,” said Gerardo. "I had to use my drinking water to keep me cool, pouring it on head. It didn’t help my high blood pressure. I couldn’t even take my medicine. But, I think, thanks to the thousands of phone calls and letters from people everywhere, they let me out."

Sadly, his smile vanished the moment he saw his wife Adriana Pérez on TV, Glover noted. “We waited for the guards to let us out. Gerardo stood at attention against a wall near the cellblock door next to another prisoner. We gave him a fist salute. He returned it. His sister blew a kiss. He grinned reassuringly – as if to remind us. "Stay strong."

Internationally known as the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labańino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero and René González were given harsh sentences ranging from 15 years to consecutive life terms plus 15 years in a trial plagued with irregularities and held in a highly biased Miami court.

The Cuban Five had been working to uncover information about terrorist activities being planned and carried out against Cuba by ultra-rightwing organizations based in southern Florida with a long record of terrorist actions against Cuba and the Cuban people. When they turned their information over to authorities they were arrested and have been in jail ever since.

A UN Working Group reviewing the case determined that the trial did not take place in a climate of objectivity and impartiality, which is required in order to conclude on the observance of the standards of a fair trial.
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[Judi Lynn]

1. So glad he got to see his sister, at least. Apparently it helped to have these American citizens

as her escorts.

This is so damned evil. The first Appeals Court overturned that dishonest, vicious decision in the heart of "exile" terrorist territory, with a court room packed with the very people who have been terrorizing Cuba in the first place, sitting and sneering at them, with their friends.

It's clear to the entire world they were absolutely innocent of any possible crimes against this country, since they went in, in all good faith to the fBI, thinking they would help them against the terrorists who are BREAKING U.S. laws by launching terrorist attacks on Cuba from this country. It is ILLEGAL.

How our own law can be this perverted, and done this way bys poisonous people in our own Justice Department is a plunge into the pit of hell.

Speaking of pit of hell, these cruel and unusual punishments against this man, and his collegues, should be punished, themselves, in the International Criminal Court. They should NOT be living in these conditions, they are known to have done NOTHING against the U.S. government, and the Justice Department kept shopping the case until they could get to a court which brought in the judgement they wanted against these socialist men.

http://cms7.blogia.com.nyud.net:8090/blogs/r/rp/rpb/rpbm/upload/20080604154139-gerardo-cuba.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_CMHTXgik56U/TFM4gnDdw1I/AAAAAAAAAaU/jkqQexaifzk/s320/82.jpg

Gerardo Hernández and his wife, Gerardo Hernández in prison.

I am glad to learn Danny Glover knows Saul Landau, a wonderful authority on all Latin American politics, and history.

It's so good they both have visited the prisoner. Hope somehow there is something more they can do.

Thank you.