National Boricua Human Rights Network

This is the film of the industry showing of Crime Against Humanity shown on January 26, 2008. Visit www.CrimeAgainstHumanity.net for more information on the play and show schedule.

We would like to acknowledge those who came out for the industry preview of Crime Against Humanity at Batey Urbano: Robert Teitel, Producer of Barber Shop and Humboldt Park Sharon King, King Casting Jessica Camacho, Peoples Theater Ivan Vega, Urban Theater Company José López, Puerto Rican Cultural Center Lourdes Lugo, Pedro Albizu Campos High School [...]

Marí­a Vega, El diario La prensa (Click here to read original article) January 12, 2008 New York—In their visits to independentists in New York, FBI agents have been showing “some twenty” photos of activists, apparently recently taken according to leaders of the movement, protesting in front of the federal court in Brooklyn. The three activists [...]

Visit IndymediaPR.org for photos on the January 10, 2008 protest in Puerto Rico.

On December 23, in the spirit of Christmas, the Puerto Rican Bar Association sent a letter to president Bush seeking the release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera. The letter notes that they have served more than 25 years in prison, and that in Puerto Rico there is broad [...]

Juan González, New York Daily News (Click here to read the original article) Wednesday, January 9th 2008, 4:00 AM A few days before Christmas, two men walked into Julio Pabon’s sports memorabilia store on E.149th St. in the South Bronx. One of them identified himself as an FBI agent; the other was from the Joint [...]

Bob Boyle January 10, 2008 Originally designed as a Constitutional protection against unsubstantiated charges, the federal grand jury has long been recognized as an investigatory tool of the Justice Department and evolved into a mechanism of repression and abuse. At the request of a prosecutor, a grand jury can summon anyone to appear and testify [...]

January 2008, La Red On a cold Saturday, December 8, the Peace Pledge sponsored its 5th annual commemoration of International Human Rights Day. Peace Pledge, along with American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, 8th Day Center for Justice, National Boricua Human Rights Network and the National Lawyers Guild held signs, banners and [...]

January 2008, La Red Batey Urbano was the site of this year’s 15th Annual Pancake Waffle Breakfast fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Over 250 people ate a delicious vegetarian breakfast and listened to videos of the Puerto Rican political prisoners, Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera. The audience [...]

January 2008, La Red Monday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, over 70 people delighted in previewing a four-scene preview of Crime Against Humanity a play about Puerto Rican political prisoners in general and featuring monologues taken from letters Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera wrote to the playwright, who have served 27 and [...]