As Obama Moves To Free Manning & Rivera, Others Still Hope For Clemency

President Obama commuted the sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar López Rivera on Tuesday as other political prisoners — many held for decades on charges related to black and Native American movements — make their final pushes for clemency under Obama.

Joe Catron
By Joe Catron
Marchers carry a large painting of American Indian Leonard Peltier during a "National Day of Mourning," Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

NEW YORK --- As supporters celebrated the White House’s announcement on Tuesday that President Barack Obama had commuted the sentence of Puerto Rican icon Oscar López Rivera, convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1981 for his role in the pro-independence Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, others sentenced on political charges decades ago are

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Obama Frees Puerto Rican Independence Activist Oscar Lopez Rivera

Puerto Rico’s independence activist and one of the longest held political prisoners in the U.S. will be free.

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By teleSUR
An archive image of Puerto Rican independentista Oscar Lopez Rivera.

(REPORT) --- The United States government announced Tuesday the release of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has been imprisoned in the U.S. for 36 years for his struggle to free Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule. Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama commuted Lopez' sentence, which will expire on May 17, according to a list of commutations announced

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