National Boricua Human Rights Network

Resolution calling for the release of Oscar López Rivera SUMMIT ON HUMAN RIGHTS 2012 FOR THE RELEASE OF OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA AND TO THE MEMORY OF ATTORNEY JUAN SANTIAGO NIEVES HELD AT UNIVERSIDAD DE SAGRADO CORAZON SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, DECEMBER 7-10, 2012 The Summit on Human Rights 2012 for the release of Oscar López [...]

– Jan Susler For Encuentro Sobre Derechos Humanos en San Juan, Puerto Rico December 10, 2012 The U.S. government categorically denies it has political prisoners in its gulags. It does it primarily to cover up the nefarious, barbaric and even criminal acts and practices it carries out against us and other regular prisoners, and to [...]

PRESENTATION OF MICHAEL DEUTSCH AT THE DERECHOS HUMANOS CONFERENCE, SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY, SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO. DECEMBER 8, 2012 From December 7-10, at the Sacred Heart University in San Juan Puerto Rico, a Human Rights Conference was held under the direction of the Comité Pro-Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico ) and co-sponsored by the Puerto [...]

The National Boricua Human Rights Network is working with activists in Germany to educate and publicize the plight of Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican Political Prisoner who has been unjustly incarcerated for over 31 years in the US. Oscar is writing a message for the “International Rosa Luxemburg Conference” to be held in January 2013 [...]

Líderes de diferentes ideologías se unen para pedir que excarcelen a Oscar López Rivera. Hagale clic para ver el video aqui.

HELD AT UNIVERSIDAD DE SAGRADO, CORAZON, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, DECEMBER 7-10, 2012 The Summit on Human Rights 2012 for the release of Oscar López Rivera and to the memory of Puerto Rican attorney Juan Santiago Nieves, to whom we owe this initiative, is an ambitious effort for the broadest discussion of the current state [...]

Avelino González Claudio, released to a halfway home in the San Juan area last Thursday, with his son, Juan Antonio González Pedrosa. On behalf of the NBHRN, Welcome Home!

Pancake/Waffle Breakfast Benefit for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners On Sunday, December 16, community members, sympathizers and El Rescate residents and staff attended the Pancake/Waffle Breakfast Benefit for Oscar Lopez Rivera, one of the last political prisoners to still be incarcerated. The event started with fresh pancakes and waffles, music and warm conversation. The room was [...]

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Avelino González Claudio was greeted by dozens of supporters Thursday, Dec 6, as he arrived home to finish serving a prison sentence. Avelino eluded the FBI for more than two decades before he was arrested in Puerto Rico in 2008 for involvement in a $7 million robbery of a Wells Fargo & Co. armored truck [...]