Puerto Rico

Zoraida Santiago Buitrago

Released

Zoraida Santiago Buitrago was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as...

Vidal Santiago Diaz

Released

Vidal Santiago Díaz was Pedro Albizu Campos's barber, besieged for hours and shot and wounded by police and Na...

Juan Segarra-Palmer

Released

Juan Enrique Segarra-Palmer emerged as a central figure in Puerto Rican pro-independence militancy and was wid...

Rev. Al Sharpton

Released

The Reverend Al Sharpton, the New York civil-rights leader and founder of the National Action Network, travele...

Clemente Soto Vélez

Released

Clemente Soto Vélez was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and organizer for the Nationalist Party. He helped fou...

Jane Speed de Andreu

Released

Jane Speed de Andreu was an Alabama-born Communist organizer who was jailed on at least five occasions between...

Elio Torresola

Released

Elio Torresola Roura was a Puerto Rican Nationalist from Jayuya — a cousin of Blanca Canales and brother of Gr...

Erasmo Velázquez

Released

Erasmo Velázquez, also known as Erasmo Velázquez y Olmedo, was a Puerto Rican Nationalist from Caguas and secr...

Julio H. Velázquez

Released

Julio H. Velázquez was a member of the Cadets of the Republic, the youth corps of the Puerto Rican Nationalist...

Luis F. Velázquez

Released

Luis F. Velázquez was a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from Ponce and a member of its national d...

Olga Viscal Garriga

Released

Olga Viscal Garriga was a young Puerto Rican independence-movement spokeswoman jailed after the 1950 Nationali...

Wilfredo Vélez Hernández

Wilfredo Vélez Hernández was imprisoned for a 1979 civil-disobedience action against U.S. Navy operations in V...

Carlos Zenón

Released

Carlos Zenón was arrested for Vieques boating actions to stop bombing of inhabited island as part of the susta...

Alberto de Jesús

Released

One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

María de Lordes Santiago

Released

María de Lordes Santiago was arrested for trespass on the U.S. Navy bombing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico, as...

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Humberty Jesus Carrillo-Garcia

In Custody

Humberty Jesus Carrillo-Garcia was arrested on July 20, 2026 after prosecutors accused him of posting threats...

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Amilcar A. Alicea

Released

One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Carlos A. Frontera

Released

One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Carlos A. Navarro

Released

One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Luis Acevedo

Released

Luis Acevedo, a Presbyterian minister from Mayagüez, was jailed on August 4, 2000 in connection with a Vieques...

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Reynaldo Acevedo

Released

One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...

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Annette Acosta

Released

Annette Acosta was among the protesters arrested at Bahía de la Chiva, Vieques, on May 19, 1979. A contemporar...

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Ricardo Acosta

Ricardo Acosta was a Mayaguez, Puerto Rico strike activist arrested after militant strikers stopped unloading...

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Isaias Agosto

Released

One of approximately 1,500 activists arrested between 1999 and 2003 for civil disobedience at the U.S. Navy's...