MediaRelease
September 12 2013
Christchurch CFS
Imprisoned for Fighting Terrorism
People may wonder about some yellow ribbons that have appeared attached to trees in Hagley Park.
Spokesman for the Christchurch Cuba Friendship Society Warren Brewer says the ribbons are part of an international
campaign to raise publicly the demand to obtain the return of four Cuban citizens, imprisoned for years in the U.S., to
their homes and families. There were five, but one has been released.
Their crime says Mr Brewer, was to investigate and report on the activities of terrorist groups based in Miami. These
terrorist groups have been responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner and Cuban tourist hotels.
When advised of these terrorists, the U.S. did not arrest and charge them. Instead, Mr Brewer says, they jailed the
anti-terrorists. Thus, he claims the “war on terrorism” depends on which terrorists the U.S. protects and encourages.
The campaign to release the Cuban Five is supported world-wide by Nobel Prize winners, senior European and Latin
American political leaders and a wide range of honest Americans, says Mr Brewer.
“We would like to think’, he added, “that N.Z. parliamentarians would show the same integrity, courage and compassion.”
Warren Brewer
Christchurch - Cuba Friendship Society
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