National Boricua
Human Rights Network

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 in the [...]

Héctor L. Pesquera Sevillano
Physician
February 16, 2008 El Nuevo Día
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The mobilization of more than two hundred FBI agents in September of 2005 for the assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos; the searches of homes and offices of independentists by commandos of this agency in February of 2006; the subpoenas of young independentists [...]

February 6, 2008
Dear compañeros y compañeras in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and our Americas:
We want to express our profound thanks and eternal gratitude to you and all the organizations (artists and media included) who for the past two months have generously joined a glorious campaign to support us. However, we know that the campaign has [...]

Educational charla about grand juries with attorney Michael Deutsch of the Peoples’ Law Office

by Jan Susler
“It appears to us to be a reinitiation of the harassment of independentists.”1 — U.S. Congressman José Serrano, speaking to FBI director Robert Mueller
An unexpected knock on the door . . . men in trench coats handing you a grand jury subpoena . . . . If you’re involved in the movement [...]

[Although unrelated to the subpoenas issued to the three Puerto Rican activists in New York, this article is another example of how the "war on terrorism" legitimates reduction of civil liberties]

February 1, 2008

By PHILIP SHENON
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WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to a reporter [...]

According to an article printed by El Nuevo Día, On February 1, 2008, the subpoenas issued to three Puerto Rican activists in Brooklyn by the Federal Grand Jury were indefinitely postponed. This is the second time the subpoenas for graphic artist Tania Frontera, social worker Christian Torres and filmmaker Julio Pabón were deferred—the first postponement [...]

February 2008, La Red
Over a hundred people, convoked by the National Boricua Human Rights Network, turned out in the cold and pouring rain in Chicago on Thursday, January 10, at the Federal Plaza to condemn the recent subpoenas of three young Puerto Rican activists by a Federal Grand Jury. The subpoenas, returnable on January 11, [...]

February 2008, La Red
As almost one dozen cities in the US and Puerto Rico prepared for another round of protest actions for the February 1st grand jury hearing date at the Brooklyn Federal Court House, the lawyers for the subpoenaed activists were informed that the case was postponed indefinitely. The subpoenas have not been dropped. [...]

Michael Deutsch, People’s Law Office
In the past, the likely scenario for a grand jury resister was a citation for civil contempt which could be a long as the remaining life of the grand jury - up to18 months - and the possibility of early release through a “Grumbles” motion, which alleges that further incarceration would [...]