• Adriana Pérez illegally detained at Houston airport, interrogated and
                   forced to return to Cuba • Still no response to a request by the Five’s
                   lawyers to see classified documents on the case

                   DESPITE having a visa to enter the country, the U.S.
                   authorities have prevented the wife of Gerardo Hernández –
                   one of the five Cubans serving unjustified sentences – from
                   reaching California’s Lompoc prison to visit him.

                   Adriana Pérez informed Cuban television that after arriving at Houston
                   airport on July 25, she was illegally detained for 11 hours and subjected to
                   interrogations by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the
                   Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS). She was forced to
                   return to Cuba against her will and without seeing her husband,
                   being given no other option by the U.S. authorities.

                   She added that she was forced to present documentation on
                   the pretext that it had to be photocopied and was separated
                   from the Cuban official traveling with her.

                   During the interrogation, she was told that although she had
                   no problem with immigration, her case was of interest to the
                   FBI, whose agents took personal information, photographs
                   and even fingerprints, and questioned her for one hour.

                   Pérez confirmed that the INS cancelled her visa to travel on to
                   Lompoc without ever explaining why they had decided to
                   prevent her from visiting her husband, whom she has not
                   seen for four years.

                   Hernández is serving two life terms and a 15-year sentence
                   after being convicted of endangering U.S. national security
                   during a rigged trial in Miami.

                   The same court tried Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero,
                   both of whom received life sentences, and Fernando González
                   and René González, sentenced to 19 and 15 years
                   respectively.

                   The five Cubans were merely compiling information on
                   potential acts of terrorism against their country organized by
                   groups located in Florida.

                   HYPOCRITICAL ANTI-TERRORIST POLICY

                   Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba’s National Assembly,
                   affirmed that the case of the Five demonstrates the hypocrisy
                   of the White House war on terrorism.

                   This hatred of the Five exists because the authorities are
                   aware that the more U.S. people know about their situation,
                   the more government hypocrisy and connivance with those
                   terrorist groups will be exposed, Alarcón affirmed.

                   He charged that four years after the men’s arrest in Miami, a
                   petition by the defense lawyers to see hundreds of classified
                   documents on the case is still under litigation in the Federal
                   Court.

                   Alarcón confirmed that defense attorneys had requested the
                   declassification of those texts prior to the trial, and the
                   federal court judge and the FBI agreed not to reveal them so
                   as to manipulate the case in the Miami courtroom.

                   He noted that in one private meeting with the judge and the
                   FBI, the handling of evidence was discussed; months after
                   the trial’s conclusion, there is still no response to the basic
                   defense petition for access to the charges brought.

                   He exposed how during the case of Gerardo Hernández,
                   accused of first degree murder, the U.S. government itself
                   presented a written petition to an Atlanta Court in May 2001
                   to modify that charge against the Cuban if it couldn’t be
                   proven.

                   However, Atlanta’s attorney general rejected the petition, but
                   even with that existing precedent, the Miami court jury found
                   him guilty of an accusation that government had rejected.

                   “If that came out, we can only imagine how many U.S.
                   citizens would be alarmed,” stated the president of the Cuban
                   Parliament.

                   “The United States constantly wants to hide its crime,”
                   Alarcón highlighted in reference to the refusal by the U.S.
                   authorities to allow Adriana Pérez to continue her journey to
                   Lompoc to visit her husband. He added that such behavior is
                   typical of people who know they are guilty and that they are
                   committing a great injustice.

                   Gerardo, he said, has maintained an upright and incorruptible
                   attitude in the face of pressure, isolation in the Security
                   Housing Unit (SHU) and the sham of the legal process, and
                   this is without a doubt another maneuver to put him under
                   more pressure.

                   Alarcón confirmed that Cuba has information that Adriana was
                   regarded as a detainee by the FBI and the INS at Houston
                   airport.