Canberra, May 12 (RHC) -- An exhibition of paintings by Cuban anti-terrorist Antonio Guerrero opened last Saturday in Sydney, as part of a new solidarity initiative of the Australian Association of Friendship with Cuba.

The Stirrup Gallery, under the title “I'll Die as I've Lived,” exhibited 15 paintings of Guerrero, who along with Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino, is still serving unjust imprisonment in the United States.

Chela Wietzel, president of the solidarity group, and Cuban Ambassador Pedro Monzon said that the art exhibition is aimed at providing information and bring attention among Australians to the campaign for the release of the three anti-terrorist fighters, memebers of the Cuban Five, whose other two members, René González and Fernando González, are already back in Cuba after completing their sentences.

The Five were arrested in 1998 for monitoring terrorist groups established in the U.S. city of Miami, from where they planned violent actions against Cuba. They were wrongfully convicted in 2001 and given harsh prison sentences of up to life imprisonment.

In parallel, artworks by Australian aboriginals were auctioned at the event to collect funds for the Che Guevara Hospital in Las Tunas.