Media Release 
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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