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Julio Medina González

State:Puerto Rico
Support
Puerto Rican Independence
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Biography

Dávila Marichal identifies Medina González as a member of the revolutionary committee formed after the United States invasion and describes him as the first Puerto Rican political prisoner sentenced in the United States federal court in Puerto Rico. He later belonged to the independence wing of the Unión Party and the Nationalist Party. The source does not supply exact custody dates or an imposed term. Source: José Manuel Dávila Marichal, Organizando la revolución: El Ejército Libertador del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico y la insurrección nacionalista de 1950 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid doctoral thesis, 2020), physical/printed page 38, 146; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.

Case

Charges: Political prosecution; individual statutory count unestablished
Sentence: Dávila Marichal identifies Medina González as a member of the revolutionary committee formed after the United States invasion and describes him as the first Puerto Rican political prisoner sentenced in the United States federal court in Puerto Rico. He later belonged to the independence wing of the Unión Party and the Nationalist Party. The source does not supply exact custody dates or an imposed term.