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Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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National Committee Update — October 1992

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs DateOctober 1, 1992 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners

October 1992 correspondence and organizing notes from the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners.

Petition to the U.N. on P.O.W. Status (FALN 11)

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners

Petition arguing that under international law captured Puerto Rican freedom fighters are entitled to prisoner-of-war status and release from U.S. detention. Covers statement of the case, capture and prosecution of the eleven FALN defendants, petitioners' legal claim, and an appendix.

Release Report Back — Puerto Rican Prisoners of War (1999)

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs DateSeptember 1, 1999 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners

Report to supporters on the September 1999 release of eleven Puerto Rican POWs under conditional clemency from the Clinton administration — Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Lucy & Alicia Rodriguez, Elizam Escobar, Adolfo Matos, Luis Rosa, Ricardo Jimenez, Alejandrina Torres, and Alberto Rodriguez. Carlos Alberto Torres, Oscar López Rivera, Juan Segarra Palmer,...

Tribute to Jose E. Lopez — Chicago (October 31, 1999)

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs DateOctober 31, 1999 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners

Event program from the October 31, 1999 Chicago tribute to Jose E. Lopez, honoring decades of Puerto Rican-independence organizing and the campaign to free the POWs.