Biography
Raziel Azuara was arrested during protests against the NATO summit in Chicago on May 20, 2012. Police accused him of throwing a light bulb filled with red paint toward officers near Cermak Road and Michigan Avenue. He was initially charged with aggravated battery to a police officer and held on $150,000 bail. In 2014, shortly after the NATO 3 trial, Azuara pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and received two years of probation and 20 hours of community service. The exact plea/sentencing day and his actual jail release date remain unverified.
Probation chronology review October 13, 2026: The original Nuclear Resister issue 173, page 7, visually inspected with its March 4, 2014 footer, reports that Azuara accepted a misdemeanor battery plea and two years' probation plus 20 hours' community service a few days after the NATO 3 trial. The previously asserted March month is removed from the biography; the sentence is recorded only at verified 2014 year precision. The publication date is not assigned as the individual plea/sentencing day or jail release. Neither probation nor this retrospective report establishes his actual discharge day or continuous detention until 2014. No portrait of Azuara appears on this relevant page.
Documented release review October 13, 2026: The original Nuclear Resister issue 167, page 3, rendered and visually inspected, individually lists Raziel Azuara under previously listed, recently released. Its footer is September 3, 2012. This establishes that release occurred in 2012 after the May arrest, so the missing release field is recorded at year precision only. September 3 is the reporting upper bound, not an asserted discharge day. The 2014 probation disposition does not mean uninterrupted imprisonment until 2014. Exact discharge, served days and an individually identified photograph remain unresolved.
