Archive for November, 2007

More Than 25 Years: Puerto Rican Political Prisoners

By miguel • Nov 1st, 2007 • Category: Not Enough Space, Political Prisoners

by Jan Susler, from Third World Resurgence, issue 207-208, Nov/Dec 2007
In 1999, President Bill Clinton commuted the prison sentences of 12 of 15 Puerto Rican men and women arrested in the early 1980s, all of them long considered political prisoners and prisoners of war. Convicted of seditious conspiracy (that is, of conspiring to use force [...]