Vidal Santiago Diaz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
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Biography

Vidal Santiago Díaz was Pedro Albizu Campos's barber, besieged for hours and shot and wounded by police and National Guardsmen in his San Juan barbershop during the 1950 Puerto Rican Nationalist uprising. Seized wounded and unarmed, he was sentenced to about two years.

Case

Charges: Charges arising from the 1950 Nationalist uprising.
Sentence: About two years. Verdict as recorded: Convicted; arrested wounded and unarmed. Charges as recorded: Charges arising from the 1950 Nationalist uprising (after an hours-long police siege of his barbershop).
Convicted: Yes

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