Montana attorney Brian Kahn gave 20 judges legal documents from the case, including the 2005 three-judge unanimous decision overturning the Five’s conviction and the facts of the Miami journalists who received U.S. government pay during the trial.

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit initiated by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, along with the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and Liberation newspaper, discovered that Miami-area journalists were on the payroll of the government, in clear violation of U.S. law.

A U.S. federal court ordered the State Department to hand over files about secret payments that the U.S. government made to Miami-based journalists to prejudice the case of the Cuban Five in 2001.

PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and actor Danny Glover speak at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Moot Court Room on a panel on the case of the Cuban Five.

The PCJF filed a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit against the U.S. State Department for its refusal to produce materials in its possession about secret payments by the U.S. government to Miami-based journalists who were reporting on the case of the Cuban Five prior to the trial, during the trial and while the jury was deliberating.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the unjust arrest of the Cuban 5, an important forum will be held at UDC featuring actor Danny Glover, Cuban Five attorney Richard Klugh, PCJF Executive Director Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Associate Prof. Chrisarla Houston and Gloria La Riva, Coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.

The U.S. State Department has illegally refused to release documents from 1998 to 2002 related to the covert propaganda operation run by the U.S. government that secretly paid Miami-based journalists who conducted a media campaign against the Cuban Five.

Panel discusses the political case of the Cuban Five and the injustice of their continued incarceration

The Cuban newspaper Granma covers the work of PCJF and others in uncovering the contracts between the U.S. government and Miami-based journalists who reported on the case of the Cuban Five

Thousands of pages of previously unreleased materials reveal that the U.S. government was paying Miami-based journalists who saturated the media with reports that were highly inflammatory and prejudicial to the Cuban Five.