Vol. 71/No. 39      October 22, 2007

Special participants will include family members of the five Cubans. The campaign to win their freedom includes calling on the U.S. government to grant visas to Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez, wives of two of the imprisoned revolutionaries. The women have been trying for eight years to visit their husbands in jail. Washington has denied them visas each time they applied.

The conference is being organized by the U.S.-based National Network on Cuba (NNOC) and the Canadian Network On Cuba. Speaking here at the premiere showing of a film on the case, Ignacio Meneses, a cochair of the NNOC, said the conference will be an opportunity for activists from the United States to meet with family members of the five and other Cubans working on the defense effort. Cuban are prevented from taking part in such conferences in the United States due to Washington’s denial of visas to Cubans and travel restrictions placed on Cuban diplomats in the United States. U.S. citizens are prevented from having such exchanges in Cuba due to Washington’s travel ban against that country.

Information on the conference can be found at www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/.
 
 
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