Freeing Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera

Adam Carpinelli will interview Alejandro Luis Molina the Committee Coordinator for the National Boricua Human Rights Network which focuses on the liberation of Political Prisoners from the Puerto Rican independence movement. Molina will focus the discussion on Oscar Lopez Rivera who was forced underground in 1975 with other comrades after the Justice Department identified him as an FALN leader. On May 29, 1981, he was arrested, the FBI calling him one of America's most feared fugitives. At trial, he refused to participate, declaring himself a POW. In 1981, he was convicted of armed robbery, miscellaneous charges, and seditious conspiracy - sedition pertaining to actions to incite insurrection or rebellion; conspiracy by working with others to achieve it. Initially sentenced to 55 years, 15 more were added in 1988, based on spurious charges of participating in a conspiracy to escape. For over a decade Oscar was held in punitive maximum-security confinement, and remained in max facilities until 2008. Only then was he transferred to a medium security prison on condition he report every two hours to corrections staff, an unheard of stipulation. He is currently at FCI Terre Haute in Indiana.
For more information: Boricua Nacional Pro-Derechos Humanos 2739 W. Division Street Chicago IL 60622 www.boricuahumanrights.org
Write to Oscar! LÓPEZ RIVERA, OSCAR #87651-024 FCI Terre Haute, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808
Birthday: January 6, 1943 Comité Pro-Derechos Humanos www.presospoliticospuertorriquenos.org