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10/13/09 - Prensa Latina (Habana) - New Sentence to Cuban Anti-terrorist in
USA

Washington, Oct 213 (Prensa Latina) A judge sentenced Tuesday Antonio
Guerrero, one of the five Cuban Anti-terrorists jailed in the US, to
21 years, 10 months, a longer sentence than that agreed by the
defense and the district attorney for a re-sentence.

The judge Joan Lenard doesn’t follow the recommendations of the
government and lawyers that suggested a reduction to 20 years the
previous sentence of life imprisonment and 10 years, said to Prensa
Latina Alicia Jrapko, member of the International Committee to Free
the Cuban Five.

According to Jrapko, who was present in the oral sentence, the
government recognized the Cuban Five Case, as it knows
internationally in the solidarity campaigns, caused different
reactions in the world, where many voices demand its release from
prison.

The Guerrero's audience precedes the audiences of Fernando González
and Ramón Labañino, both postpone after the judge announced an order
as replay to an application of the defense.

The three Anti-terrorists were assigned to a second sentence trial,
according to the ruling of the Court of Appeals of the Eleventh
Circuit, which cancelled the previous sentences because they
considered them wrong, as a result of many irregularities in the
judicial process.

Those three plus Gerardo Hernández and René González serve sentences
from 15 years to double life imprisonment because they informed their
country about violent actions prepared by terrorist Florida groups.
These sentences were announced by Lenard in 2001. However, the Cuban
Five are in prison since September 1998.

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