Washington, May 21 (RHC) – U.S. Academic, Noam Chomsky, will join lawyers, religious leaders, intellectuals and social activists in the third 'Five Days for The Cuban Five' event, to be held from June 4th to the 11th in Washington, DC.

The event, which is organized by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five and the Voices for the Five group, aims to raise awareness about the case of the Cuban Five, five Cuban men imprisoned in US jails since 1998 for monitoring terrorist groups based in the city of Miami.

Participants will call on U.S. President Barack Obama to release the remaining three of the Cuban Five, who are still serving long prison sentences as result of a biased trial.

A number of well-known people have already added their names to the campaign, actor Danny Glover, writer and professor, Angela Davis, poet Alice Walker, journalist and writer, Ignacio Ramonet, Brazilian writer and liberation theologian, Frei Betto, Retired U.S. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, among many others.