VS laten politieke gevangene vrij na 30 jaar.

Johan Bollen · 29 juli 2010, 04:12

Het betreft Carlos Alberto Torres die de onafhanklijkheid van Puerto Rico nastreefde. Hij werd beschuldigd van samenzwering.

Citaat:

Carlos Alberto Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on September 19, 1952. His parents moved to New York, finally settling in Chicago. He studied in the University of Illinois in Carbondale and Chicago. Carlos was one of the founders of the Rafael Cancel Miranda Puerto Rican High School now known as the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School and participated in the Committee to Free the 5 Nationalists (including Lolita Lebron, whose portrait he is holding in the photo at right).

In 1976, Carlos was forced to go underground and was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. He was captured along with other comrades and sentenced to 88 years on charges of seditious conspiracy, among other charges. Carlos Alberto is a regular writer for Libertad and his short stories have been published in Cuentos Sara la Libertad.

Although the Clinton Administration offered clemency to 12 Puerto Rican political prisoners in the fall of 1999, no leniency was granted to Carlos Torres, whom prosecutors described as a leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), an underground organization which fought for Puerto Rico's independence in the 1970s and '80s. (See the PARC/National Committee page on Amnesty for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War).

Ex-preso pol�*tico retorna al pa�*s después de pasar 30 años encarcelado en EEUU
"Ex-politieke gevangene keert terug naar zijn land na 30 jaar gevangenschap in de VS"
'Goed' nieuws dus.

Johan Bollen · 29 juli 2010, 05:19

Volgens Wikipedia in het engels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Torres

Johan Bollen · 29 juli 2010, 05:20

Volgens een VS bron
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_661955.html

Citaat:

Throngs of supporters greeted a Puerto Rican nationalist leader Tuesday as he returned from nearly 30 years in prison for participating in a group that used violence against U.S. control of the island.

Carlos Alberto Torres, 57, pushed through hundreds of people who waved Puerto Rican flags and promised they would keep fighting for the Caribbean territory's independence.

Volgens Wikipedia in het engels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Torres

Maar dat is een andere Torres

Wiley E Coyote · 29 juli 2010, 08:02

de correcte wiki is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_...an_Nationalist)

29 juli 2010, 05:19	#2
Johan Bollen Secretaris-Generaal VN Geregistreerd: 11 januari 2008 Locatie: La Paz - Lanaken Berichten: 23.618	Volgens Wikipedia in het engels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Torres

29 juli 2010, 08:02	#4
Wiley E Coyote Minister Geregistreerd: 26 juni 2007 Locatie: the highways of the Southwestern United States Berichten: 3.617	de correcte wiki is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_...an_Nationalist)