By Prensa Latina,
Kathmandu : More than 200 students and professors from the Engineering College of Battapur, a small Nepalese city near the Himalaya Cordillera, showed their solidarity with the five anti-terrorist fighters now imprisoned in the US, mostly known as the Cuban Five.
An activity organized by the Nepalese Workers and Farmers Party let participants demand the liberation of Fernando Gonzalez, René Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez and Ramón Labanino.
Soon, there will be 10 years from the day the Cuban Five were arrested and sentenced in a tricky trial in the city of Miami, US, in a process a UN commission regarded as arbitrary.
Nepalese Workers and Farmers Party president and deputy Narayan Bijukchhe Rohit pointed out that the Cuban Five constitute an example for those who are fighting for peace and independence of the peoples of the world.
Cuban Ambassador to India Abelardo Cueto, who is now visiting Nepal, was present in the activity.
Cueto said in his intervention the solidarity of the peoples of the world is quite important to reach the liberation of the Cuban Five, who will arrive in 10 years of prison on September 12.