Gerardo HernAndez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio
Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez
were detained in the early hours of Saturday
September 12th, 1998, and locked for the next 17
months in punishment cells, in solitary
confinement. The main accusation against them--as
recognized by the prosecutors and the judge from
their indictment to the last day of the
trial--was that they had peacefully, with no
weapons, penetrated anti-Cuban terrorist groups
with a view of reporting back to Cuba about their criminal plans.

Was it conceivable to have a fair trial in Miami
for any Cuban revolutionary facing such an
accusation?