[Ppnews] Support Antonio Camaco Negron

[Political Prisoner News]

Thursday, March 30, 2006 Linda Backiel, Lawyer for Antonio Camacho Negrón

Last night I met with Antonio.  He is in solitary 
confinement because he refused to answer 
questions that are made of new prisoners.  He is 
not receiving his medicines and his cell is 
flooded.  He is not being given toilet paper.

As always his spirits are high.  I understand 
that his arrest on the afternoon of the first day 
of the National Congress for Decolonization is 
due to a desire to repress those efforts.  He is 
the national organizer of the Congress and 
dedicated it to the political prisoners just 
before being arrested around 4:00 p.m. in a street in Río Piedras.

Antonio declared that "The Congress that is 
taking place simultaneously in several 
universities and colleges throughout the country 
by all anti-colonial sectors has received 
tremendous support and the government of the 
United States is making its move to once again 
attempt to repress the desires of our people to regain its sovereignty."

He reiterated that his stand in the towards the 
courts is the same as always: he does not 
recognize their jurisdiction.  "The Federal Court 
is not in Puerto Rico to meet out justice, but to 
kidnap the sovereignty of the people of Puerto 
Rico and to impose the expansionist imperialist 
policies of the United States.  What is good for 
the hunter is not good for the hunted."

Antonio also emphasized the fact that just before 
his arrest by the same federal agents that 
arrested him at the Congress, he had just asked 
all those present, not for a minute of silence, 
but a minute of applause for Filiberto Ojeda Ríos.

It is important to note that a support picket for 
Antonio was organized on Saturday April 1st in 
front of MDC Guyanabo.  The organizers will 
continue organizing pickets every Saturday until 
Antonio is released from jail!!

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