In Moscow, Serguei Baburin, rector of the Russian State University of Economy and Trade, complained over Washington’s refusal to listen to international personalities, parliaments and governments from all over the world who are demanding the release of the Cuban Five, Prensa Latina reported.

Baburin himself demanded the freedom of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino, while he was the vice president of the Russian Duma (Parliament).

Meanwhile, the Venceremos organization in that European country led a protest in front of the U.S. embassy to demand the release of the Cuban Five.

The leader of the group, Anatoli Vlasev, said they delivered a letter to the embassy for American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which they appeal to her condition as a woman and mother to let the wives of two of the prisoners visit them in jail, as it is their right.

Also in Rumania, the Coordinating Committee of Friendship-with-Cuba Associations sent messages to all media agencies in the country looking for support to spread details of the case, reported the Cuban Foreign Ministry on its website.

According to the report, one of the leaders of local solidarity-with Cuba groups, Petre Ignatencu, sent a letter to Obama, urging him to reprieve the Cuban Five and thus clean the image of the American authorities which are slammed for its double-standard attitude.

In Switzerland, the local Association of solidarity with Cuba organized a demonstration in a square in Barfussen, Basel, and in the Place Georges Python, of Fribourg, to demand the release of the Cuban Five.