One of the five jailed Cuban nationals known as the Cuban Five has been re-sentenced to nearly twenty-two years in prison. Antonio Guerrero was re-sentenced Tuesday by the same judge who handed him a life sentence dismissed by an appeals court last year. The new sentence was slightly higher than what prosecutors had recommended. Guerrerro’s attorney, Leonard Weinglass, said he would appeal.

Leonard Weinglass: “He has been sentenced to twenty years on a conviction, but we will continue to fight that conviction. This ends a chapter, the chapter of his sentence.”

The Cuban Five were convicted in 2001 for spying on the US military and Cuban exiles in southern Florida. The men say they weren’t spying on the US, but trying to monitor violent right-wing Cuban exile groups that have organized attacks on Cuba. The Cuban Five trial was the only judicial proceeding in US history condemned by the UN Human Rights Commission.