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Support Gerardo Hernandez

category international | anti-capitalism | news report author Friday August 06, 2010 13:52author by pat c Report this post to the editors

There has been much in the news media of late regarding political prisoners in Cuba. You hear little of Cuban political prisoners in US Jails. Take the case of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Miami Five imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism. Gerardo is suffering under another punishment from the US government. Since July 21, Gerardo has been held in the ‘hole’ - a windowless cell of 7x3 feet which he shares with another prisoner, with little ventilation and reaching temperatures of 95 degrees. He is unable to take a shower and is taken outside in a cage for just one hour every other day.

Not only is this cruel punishment being imposed without explanation, and preventing Gerardo from seeing his lawyers at a crucial stage in his preparation for a habeas corpus pplication, but it has also been imposed while Gerardo is experiencing health problems.

In April Gerardo requested a medical appointment for conditions developed while in prison, including high blood pressure. Three months later, on July 20 he was seen by a doctor. The doctor prescribed a blood test for a bacterium which is circulating throughout the prison, but instead, the following day, Gerardo was put in the hole.

This punishment is another in the repeated violations of his human rights while in USP Victorville in California. For 12 years, the US government has denied him the basic right to receive visits from his wife, Adriana.

Please take urgent action on behalf of Gerardo today. Please email o US attorney general Eric Holder AskDOJ@usdoj.gov and demand that Gerardo:

* be returned immediately to the general population
* receive urgent medical attention
* be allowed visits by his wife
* be given space and respect, as he prepares for his appeals.

author by pat cpublication date Fri Aug 06, 2010 14:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Its not often that I get such good news immediately after posting a article but Gerardo Hernández is out of the hole! He and the other 4 of the Miami Five still need your support. More info at the link below.

Gerardo Hernández, Cuban Five hero, has just been released this morning from isolation after an intense campaign by his attorneys and thousands of supporters around the world, including nearly a thousand emails to the Bureau of Prisons generated by the National Committee's appeal.

Leonard Weinglass, one of Gerardo's attorneys, visited Gerardo this weekend along with fellow attorney Peter Schey. He described this morning to Gloria La Riva of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five the abysmal and cruel conditions that Gerardo was placed in. "Gerardo is in great spirits but he's really suffering. In 100+ degree weather, the air was so stifling that Gerardo was laying on the floor sucking in air from the bottom of the door. He couldn't take his blood pressure medicine as his doctor advised him because the weather was too hot. He couldn't use the shower because it was scalding hot water. He was given dirty bedsheets, and he had to resort to washing them in the toilet."

Weinglass noted that "we sent a five-page letter to the prison containing all the errors that they made in putting him in isolation. The letter outlined their own regulations that they violated."

Moments later this morning, in a new phone call, Weinglass announced "they've just released him to the general population!"


Related Link: http://www.freethefive.org/index.htm
author by Celia Spublication date Fri Aug 06, 2010 20:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Saludos a Gerardo.

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Fri Aug 06, 2010 20:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The charge was 'Conspiracy'.

Piracy good: Con's piracy bad?

The only subversion Cuba exports is maybe the medical teams whose work exposes the miserable health vision of our corporate sickness industry that spends billions researching techniques to keep geriatric fat cats paying for artificial expansions to their fear of mortality while children die for lack of clean water, often polluted by our outsourced dirty indutries, including big pharma.

 
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