Havana, June 28, (RHC), – Cuban hero, Fernando Gonzalez, who was recently released from a US Federal prison, said in Havana that he will keep on with the struggle for the freedom of three of his compatriots still imprisoned in the United States.

Speaking on Cuban television, Gonzalez, who was recently appointed vice-president of the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP), thanked the support by the people of Cuba for the cause of the Cuban Five, as Rene Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero and himself are known around the world.

The five Cubans were framed and imprisoned in 1998, and later given unfair prison sentences by a biased Miami court after they infiltrated ultra-right organizations that planned terrorist actions against Cuba. Fernando and Rene Gonzalez, were two of the Five who, after completing their sentences returned to Cuba. The other three remain incarcerated in US prisons despite huge international claim for their release.

As to his recent appointment at the ICAP, Fernando Gonzalez said that it is an honor to assume such a responsibility at an institution that has maintained the struggle for the release of the Five for so many years now.

Gonzalez said that his main task will consist in acting for the release of his three brothers incarcerated in the US and he called for the continuation and strengthening of the struggle for that cause.