National Boricua Human Rights Network

By EDMUND H. MAHONY Courant Staff Writer February 29, 2008 Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, a reputed member of the militant Puerto Rico independence group Los Macheteros, pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hartford to more than a dozen charges connected to the 1983 armed robbery of $7.1 million from the former Wells Fargo [...]

(From National Radio Project website) In 1971, John Young, a San Francisco police officer was killed. Members of the Black Panther party were arrested, charged and then tortured by San Francisco and New Orleans police. Courts eventually dismissed the charges based on the police extracting confessions via torture. Now more than 35 years later, the [...]

Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer A San Francisco judge refused to dismiss murder conspiracy charges Thursday against three alleged former militants accused of orchestrating a war against San Francisco police officers nearly 40 years ago. State prosecutors were forced to drop murder conspiracy charges earlier this year against five of the eight original defendants [...]