Spying Convictions of Cubans Are Reinstated
A U.S. appeals court reinstated the espionage convictions of five Cuban men and agreed to review whether they got a fair trial in Miami on charges of spying for the government of President Fidel Castro.
The five were found guilty in 2001 on charges that they were part of a ring that infiltrated U.S. military bases and Cuban exile groups and fed information to Havana. A three-judge panel from the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta had overturned the convictions.
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