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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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- Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners
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- /** reg.puertorico: 20.0 **/
- ** Topic: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners **
- ** Written 9:46 pm Aug 11, 1992 by caribdoc in cdp:reg.puertorico **
- From: Proyecto Caribeno de Justicia y Paz <caribdoc>
- Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners
-
- CONDITIONS OF INCARCERATION.
- By Jan Sussler.
-
- [Excerpt]
-
- Our prisoners are subjected to psychological and physical torture.
- If they didn't resist, they would die. If we don't resist United
- States military and corporate plans for our nation, we will die.
- Resistance is our means of survival.
- ---Alejandrina Torres
-
- Eighteen Puerto Ricans patriots imprisoned in the U.S. in 1992
- face conditions on a daily basis that are calculated to deny them
- their political identity, in an attempt to break their spirit. The
- treatment of these prisoners is designed to force cooperation with
- the government in its efforts to destroy the Puerto Rican
- Independence movement, and to set an example for others who would
- dare to follow to their footsteps. These eighteen: Alejandrina
- Torres, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Ida Luz Rodriguez, Adolfo Matos,
- Dylcia Pagan, Luis Rosa, Carmen Valetin, Elizam Escobar, Alicia
- Rodriguez, Carlos Alberto Torres, Hayddee Beltran Torres, Ricardo
- Jimenez, Edwin Cortes, Alberto Rodriguez, Juan Segarra Palmer,
- Antonio Camacho Negron, Roberto Jose Maldonado, and Roman Ramirez
- Talavera, wake up each day, and most of them have waken up every
- day for the past eleven years, to face a battle to maintain their
- identity, their dignity, their physical and psychological
- well-being. The conditions they face violate international norms,
- such as the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the
- Treatment of Prisoners (UNSMRTP) and domestic prison law as well.
-
- The U.S. government denies that it has political prisoners. The
- myth of democracy requires this denial. Yet the denial is
- contradicted by prison conditions which target the political
- prisoners for special punitive treatment. Such treatment clearly
- violates international standards which explicitly preclude
- discrimination by prison officials on the grounds of political
- beliefs or opinions.
-
- [Sussler, Jan. Condiciones de Encarcelamiento/Conditions
- Incarceration. Ofensiva 92, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, p. 21]
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.puertorico **
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