World Personalities Seek Visas for Cuban Five Relatives

[Judi Lynn]

World Personalities Seek Visas for Cuban Five Relatives
Cuban News Agency

HAVANA, Cuba, March 11 (acn) The President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D' Escoto, is one of many personalities from 27 countries that have asked Washington to grant visas to relatives of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who have been unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998.

The International Free the Five Committee announced on Tuesday that a letter was simultaneously sent last Sunday to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano; and to Attorney General Eric Holder.

The message demanded that Washington grants visas to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva to visit their husbands, Gerardo Hernandez and Rene Gonzalez, respectively.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the document was also signed, among others, by Nobel Peace Prize laureates Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel; American writers Noam Chomsky and by the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.

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http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2009/0311visas_familiares.htm