[Newspoetry] FW: Fwd: Clinton Gives Clemency to Activists Buenas
Noticias!!!!!!! (fwd)
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Subject: Fwd: Clinton Gives Clemency to Activists Buenas Noticias!!!!!!!
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Date: Wed, Aug 11, 1999, 6:06 PM
The Prisoners who finally were given the pardon:
Carlos Torres, Alejandrina Torres,Dylcia Pagan, Alicia Rodriguez,
Edwin Cortes, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Ricardo Jimenez, Adolfo Matos,
Antonio Camacho, Carmen Valentin, Alberto Rodriguez, Ida
Luz Rodriguez, Luis Rosa, Elizam Escobar, Juan Segarra Palmer
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> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:46:33 EDT
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> Clinton Gives Clemency to Activists
>
> .c The Associated Press
>
> By KEVIN GALVIN
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton offered clemency
> Wednesday to 11 members of a Puerto Rican
> independence group that staged some 130 bomb attacks
> on political and military targets in the United
> States from 1974 to 1983, administration officials
> said.
>
> One official, who spoke on condition anonymity, said
> that the prisoners were not involved in any deaths
> and that they would be required to renounce violence
> as a condition of their pardon.
>
> Clinton's action was in response to a campaign by
> human rights advocates who have argued that members
> of the group known by the Spanish initials FALN were
> punished too harshly in light of their crimes. He
> acted on the recommendation of Charles F.C. Ruff,
> the chief counsel who left his White House post on
> Friday.
>
> ``What the president did, based on the
> recommendation of counsel, was grant clemency to
> individuals on a case-by-case basis that recognized
> the serious nature of the crimes that they were
> convicted of but also took into account the
> excessive nature of the sentences that were inmposed
> upon them 20 years ago,'' said the administration
> official.
>
> ``The persons here were not convicted in cases
> involving death or serious injury,'' the official
> said. They were convicted, in some cases, of armed
> robbery and supplying resources for FALN activities.
>
> The Justice Department was expected to announce the
> decision Wednesday evening.
>
> Prosecutors branded those convicted for FALN
> activities as terrorists. But in recent months,
> Puerto Rican and U.S. church leaders, politicians
> and citizens have sent 75,000 signatures to the
> White House to demand the prisoners' freedom. South
> Africa's retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu;
> Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights
> leader; and three members of Congress are among
> them.
>
> Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States after the
> Spanish-American War in 1898. It is a U.S.
> commonwealth that enjoys local autonomy but has no
> vote in Congress or for president. The FALN, the
> Spanish initials for Armed Forces of National
> Liberation, was committed to independence for the
> island.
>
> Bombings attributed to the FALN killed six people
> and wounded dozens, but the 11 offered clemency were
> not directly involved the deaths and injuries,
> officials said. The 13 didn't defend themselves at
> trial, saying they didn't recognize U.S. legal
> jurisdiction over them.
>
> Two other prisoners for whom human rights activists
> have sought pardons were convicted in a $7.5 million
> armored truck robbery in West Hartford, Conn. The
> 1983 robbery was to finance the separatist group Los
> Macheteros, which has attacked U.S. government
> installations in Puerto Rico.
>
> There is precedent for pardons. In 1977 and 1979,
> President Carter pardoned four Puerto Rican
> nationalists who were convicted in a 1954 shooting
> attack on Congress that wounded five lawmakers.
> Carter also pardoned a fifth nationalist who was
> convicted of plotting to kill President Truman in
> 1950.
>
> AP-NY-08-11-99 1746EDT
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