Fw: Gerardo Hernandez/Cuban 5 Visa Campaign

 
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navenethem Pillay has met with Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, two of the wives of the Cuban 5, and has stated that she will intercede on 
their behalf. 

Now that Rene Gonzalez has renounced his 
citizenship and is free in Cuba with 
his wife Olga Salanueva, this means Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo is the 
only member of the Cuban 5 who has not seen his wife. 


For the 
past 15 years Gerardo Hernandez’s wife, Adriana Perez, hasn’t been 
allowed to visit him.  The U.S. asserts that she is a risk to national security, despite the fact that the U.S. government has no proof or rationale to 
justify this belief.  This separation is a violation of Gerardo’s civil 
and international rights as a prisoner.

Mail or Fax Ms. Pillay the Project's Letter and hold her accountable to her public statement of support.  Remind her that the U.S. community supports the Cuban 5 and their wives' visitation rights.



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Sign it and mail/fax to: 
Ms. Navanetham Pillay, High Commissioner of Human Rights 
Office of the High Commissioner for Human 

Rights-United Nations Office at Geneva 
8-14 Avenue de la Paix 1211 
Geneva 10, Switzerland 
Fax: + 41 22 917 9011

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Expresses Support for the case of the Cuban Five
Mar. 1, 2013
Reprinted from MinRex

UNITED NATIONS, GENEVA, March 1, 2013 - United Nations High 
Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs. Navenethem Pillay, received, 
yesterday, Olga Salanueva, spouse of René González, and Adriana Pérez, 
spouse of Gerardo Hernández.

During the meeting, Adriana and 
Olga explained to the High Commissioner the necessity that this 
organization intercedes in a direct manner on behalf of the case of the 
Cuban Five for a definitive solution, while they requested their support
 in order to be granted visas to entry the United States to visit their 
husbands.

Olga stressed that the supervised freedom regime 
endured by Rene constitutes a legal absurdity that does not comply with 
any purpose and unnecessarily prohibits his return to his Homeland and 
reunite his relatives. Adriana requested a humanitarian gesture that 
requires the political willingness and ethics of the United States Government.

Mrs. Pillay acknowledged the visa denial as a violation to the human rights and expressed this cannot constitute an additional punishment.

UN Commissioner expressed her support to this fight and her intention 
to do whatever is possible to find a solution to the case.

March 1, 2013
Cuban Permanent Mission in Geneva