Puerto Rico

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Nicolás Agosto de León

Nicolás Agosto de León was a Puerto Rican nationalist from Humacao arrested in 1941 for refusing compulsory Un...

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Luis Agroni

Released

Luis was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S...

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Carlos R. Aguirre-Flores

Carlos R. Aguirre-Flores was arrested by the Navy on April 27, 2001 during the Vieques protest at Cayo Yayí, a...

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Carlos Alberto Escobales

Released

Carlos was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U...

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José Miguel Alicea

José Miguel Alicea was detained after participating in the 1950 Puerto Rican nationalist uprising. A Ponce na...

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Pedro Alicea

Released

Pedro was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U....

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Ramón Alicea Flores

Released

Ramón was one of the Vieques 4, sentenced in 1979 to federal prison for protesting US Navy bombing on Vieques....

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Iván Alonso

Released

Iván was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S...

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Johny Alverio

Released

Johny was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U....

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Juan Alverio

Released

Juan Alverio was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of the...

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Luis A. Amely Martínez

Released

Luis A. Amely Martínez was arrested for PR Independence Party brigade trespass on Vieques as part of the susta...

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Antonio Anglero

Antonio Anglero was a Mayaguez, Puerto Rico strike activist arrested after militant strikers stopped unloading...

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Manuel Antonio Diaz

Released

Manuel was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U...

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José Antonio Rodríguez

José Antonio Rodríguez was a Caguas resident imprisoned during the 1950 crackdown despite denying Nationalist...

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Félix Aponte González

Released

Félix Aponte González was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as par...

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Luis Armando Rivera

Released

Luis was one of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S...

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Fermín L. Arraiza

Fermín L. Arraiza, a human-rights lawyer and rapporteur at the December 2001 Ibero-American ombudsman congress...

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Manuel Arroyo Zappendfeldt

Manuel Arroyo Zappendfeldt was a Puerto Rican Communist activist who testified at civil-rights hearings in 195...

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José Avilés Massanet

José Avilés Massanet was a Utuado nationalist survivor explicitly placed in Arecibo jail after the 1950 uprisi...

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Rafael Ayala Ayala

Rafael Ayala Ayala was arrested during Vieques anti-Navy civil disobedience on April 28, 2001 and transferred...

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Abraham Ayala Ortiz

Released

Abraham Ayala Ortiz was arrested for PR Independence Party brigade trespass on Vieques as part of the sustaine...

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Enrique Ayoroa Abreu

Enrique was a nationalist imprisoned under Law 53 in November 1950. The Nationalist was imprisoned again on N...

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Pedro Baigés Chapel

Released

Pedro Baigés Chapel was imprisoned in connection with the 1979 campaign against U.S. Navy operations in Vieque...

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Jesús M. Balzac

Released

Jesús M. Balzac was the editor of El Baluarte, a newspaper in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. In two articles published...