Cuba's Union of Young Communists (UJC) Monday staged a public demonstration in front of the U.S. Interests Office in Havana to protest against the release of a Cuban fugitive in the United States.

UJC members, mostly law students, set up a symbolic trial of anti-Cuba militant Luis Posada Carriles, who is sought on terrorism charges by Cuban and Venezuelan courts.

Rolando Yero, from the UJC politburo, said Monday's demonstration was a reply to what he called the U.S. own legal farce, which led to Carriles' release.

The U.S. Interests Office is part of the Swiss embassy and acts as a de facto U.S. embassy in Havana.

Carriles, currently living in the U.S. city of Miami, is wanted for a 1976 attack on a Cuban airliner, which blew up over Venezuela killing all 73 aboard, and orchestrating a series of hotel bombings in Havana in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist.

Carriles, a 79-year-old ex-CIA contractor, was released on bail in April and is being kept under court supervision. On Tuesday last week a U.S. district judge threw out an immigration indictment against him, effectively freeing him to travel anywhere in the United States.

Cuba and Venezuela have both demanded Carriles' extradition, but U.S. authorities refused, saying he might be tortured, and failed to find any takers when they suggested sending him to a another country.

Source: Xinhua