With a call to support the campaign for the release of political prisoners in the U.S., the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS) today also supported the cause of the Five Cubans imprisoned in that country.

Members of Occupy Oakland, California, one of a group of branches spread throughout the nation, called for a National Day of Occupation for Prisoners on Monday, February 20, near San Quentin prison, north of San Francisco.

The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five urged all those sympathetic to this cause to join the protest under the slogan "Free the Cuban Five and all Political Prisoners, Mass Incarceration to End, No Penalty Death".

For the protest, we will have a statement by the Cuban Five and a leaflet will be distributed among the participants, to denounce the criminal mass incarceration and support the campaign for the release of political prisoners, says the announcement on the web site of the organization.

Various reports confirm that more than two million people remain locked up in the country, many of whom are victims of abuse and torture, procedures condemned by international law and the Human Rights Convention.

The death penalty looms over the heads of thousands of others.

Washington has jailed political prisoners like Leonard Peltier (36 years in prison), Mumia Abu-Jamal (30 years), Mutulu Shakur (26 years), Oscar Lopez Rivera (31 years), Ruchell Magee (41 years) and Lynne Stewart (sentenced to 10 years).

Likewise, the statement highlights that since May 2010, Bradley Manning, the soldier who allowed the notorious leak of confidential documents on the United States in Wikileaks has been in jail, as well as the Cuban Five, four of them over 13 years in prison, while the fifth, after having served his sentence, must be remain there three more years on parole.

This is an urgent call for solidarity with the imprisoned class and to show the U.S people and the world the great injustice being committed daily in hundreds of prisons around the country, ended the call.

Translated by: Daysi Olano

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