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 HAVANA (AP) - Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon called on the U.S. government to release five accused Cuban spies serving long prison terms after a U.S. federal appeals court threw out their convictions and sentences.
Alarcon applauded Tuesday's ruling that said the men's trial in Miami wasn't fair and impartial because of community prejudice and extensive media coverage. He insisted the men be liberated while awaiting a new trial.
"What the U.S. government should do is grant them freedom immediately," Alarcon told Granma International, the Communist Party's weekly newspaper distributed overseas. "If they want to accuse them of something else, then accuse them, present evidence, and search for an impartial tribunal."
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