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From: Bob Lederer <ledererbob@usa.net><br><br>
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This is from El Diario La Prensa, apparently from Friday's paper.
Especially note the last sentence about FBI sweeps in the U.S.<br><br>
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Fear for Safety of Camacho Negrón<br>
[by] Jesús Dávila<br><br>
SAN JUAN/EDLP Correspondent - The lawyer for former Puerto
Rican<br>
political prisoner Antonio Camacho Negrón yesterday expressed
concern<br>
for the physical safety of her client in light of the reports
that the<br>
FBI is attempting to arrest him again, and gave notice that
if they<br>
want to communicate with him that they do it through her.
But, above<br>
all else, attorney Linda Backiel affirmed that the Government
of the<br>
United States does not have any reason whatsoever to send her
client to<br>
jail. He has served a jail sentence that exceeded the maxism
amount of<br>
his sentence which was imposed on him as a member of the
Popular<br>
Boricua Army-Macheteros for the robbery of a Wells Faro
armored truck<br>
in West Hartford, Ct, in 1983.<br><br>
In spite of this, as of yesterday Friday, Backiel had not
received any<br>
notice from the U.S. authorities and the only reports that
she had were<br>
those from family members who explained that agents of the
FBI had<br>
visited their home searching for Camacho Negrón. Its assumed
that they<br>
want to return Camacho Negrón to jail with the excuse that he
still has<br>
remaining time to serve of his sentence.<br><br>
Regarding his whereabouts his lawyer said that "He is in
Puerto Rico and<br>
he is free". She expressed to federal authorities that
"I am warning<br>
you that I represent him", so that if they want to
communicate with<br>
him, "they must do it through me". Bakiel, who
represented Camacho<br>
Negrón during the Wells Fargo trial, submitted to EL
DIARIO/LA PRENSA<br>
all the documentation pertinent to his leaving prison in
August of<br>
2004. Based on what is contained in the documents Backiel
explained<br>
that her client was kept in prison more time than was
permitted by law<br>
and that when they finally released him he there was not even
enough<br>
time left so that we could be under the supervision of a
probation<br>
officer. In addition, Backiel also turned over a letter in
which all<br>
these reasons were detailed to the Parole Office and indicated
that she<br>
never received any response.<br><br>
In her view, this new action by the FBI is due to "a
reprisal" against<br>
Camacho Negrón because of his statements denouncing the FBI
operation<br>
in Hormigueros during which federal agents murdered the
Commander of<br>
the Popular Boricua Army-Macheteros, Filiberto Ojeda.
"He has not done<br>
anything illegal", said Backiel and added in response to
questions by<br>
the press, that after what happened to Ojeda "I cannot
say that I will<br>
sleep with any tranquility." Following the assault and murder
of Ojeda<br>
Ríos, that took place on September 23, agents of the FBI have
begun an<br>
operation on a grand scale that involves the cities of
Chicago, New<br>
York, Philadelphia and Puerto Rico. According to attorneys
and<br>
advocates of civil liberties, FBI agents on several occasions
wearing<br>
bullet-proof vests have arrived at homes and places of work
of former<br>
political prisoners and persons who are identified with the
struggle<br>
for the independence of Puerto Rico.<br><br>
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