These
were some of the words of Irma Gonzalez which stunned the audience of
2000 people into silence at the concert organised as part of the
International Commission of Inquiry into the case of the Cuban Five in
London. Irma informed the crowd that the UK Government had just refused a
visa to her father to travel to London to give his testimony in person.
Irma,
daughter of Rene Gonzalez, the first of the Cuban Five to be released,
is just one of over 20 witnesses featured in a magnificent new film
‘Justice in London’ by renowned Cuban Director Roberto Chile, which
covers the wide range of events held in London during those memorable
days in March 2014.
It
is narrated by Irma herself and features special guests including Olga
Salanueva, wife of Rene, US novelist Alice Walker, former US Attorney
General Ramsey Clarke and Ricardo Alarcon, former President of the Cuban
National Assembly. It features the testimony of victims of the
terrorist attacks that have been carried out against Cuba since 1959,
and legal scrutiny of the United States government’s manipulation of the
case, including their pay-offs to journalists so as to prejudice the
jury pool.
The
panel of prominent judges from India, South Africa and France finish
off their verdicts by the end of the Inquiry by urging the President of
the United States of America, Barack Obama, to “pardon immediately all
these Five persons and release, immediately and unconditionally, the
three persons that continue to languish in prison in the United States”.
Read reports and witness statements here. The report will be presented during the Five days for the Five in Washington June 5th – 9th. You can find out more and support these important events
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