The National Boricua Human Rights Network continues its campaign to meet and surpass the 10,000 letter (latest count 8,500) to the US Parole Commission in favor of Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres’ release later this year. The Network has just released a video explaining the background to the case. Please forward to your contacts and write a letter today and help bring Carlos Alberto Torres home! by way of recap, on January 19, 2010, Carlos Alberto Torres attended a video hearing presided over by a U.S. Parole Commission hearing examiner whose task was to consider the disciplinary charges stemming from last January, and to make a recommendation for what should happen with respect to his request to be released on parole. Carlos Alberto answered the questions posed, and his attorney Jan Susler asked that the Parole Commission release him on parole as previously recommended, regardless of the wrongful charges. She pointed out the vast, ongoing support for his release, and argued that there is absolutely no risk in releasing him, as evidenced by the impressive example of his compatriots who were released by presidential commutation in 1999. The hearing examiner then made a favorable recommendation. Download the letter here.