Biography
Israel Medina Colón, a University of Puerto Rico law student and student-council president, received a 120-day federal sentence for entering U.S. Navy-controlled land on Vieques in protest against military exercises. The university's Academic Senate condemned the sentence in a February 4, 2003 resolution; that resolution does not establish how many days he actually served.
From 1941 to 2003, the U.S. Navy used the inhabited Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a live-fire bombing range. After Navy bombs killed civilian security guard David Sanes in 1999, a sustained civil-disobedience movement of Puerto Rican residents and U.S. solidarity activists repeatedly entered Navy land to halt training. Hundreds were arrested and dozens served federal prison sentences for trespass, conspiracy, and damage to federal property. The Navy finally withdrew from Vieques in May 2003 — the largest victory in U.S. anti-base activism in a generation.
Sentence length is not completed time served
The University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Academic Senate Certification No. 91 (academic year 2002–2003), adopted and issued February 4, 2003, reports that Israel Medina Colón, president of the law-school student council, had recently received a 120-day federal jail sentence for entering Navy-controlled land on Vieques. It condemns the penalty and seeks its revocation. The February 4 date is the resolution date, not an independently established sentencing day. The document does not say he had completed 120 days, give a physical admission or discharge date, or establish the former biography claim of 120–140 days actually served. Existing case endpoints are not independently verified by this source and remain unchanged pending separate evidence.
