Resolution 75A-15-6
In May 1981, Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist, was arrested, along with 14 other men and women, and was convicted of seditious conspiracy and related offenses.
In 1991, as a result of an international campaign for their release, President Clinton commuted the sentences of most of these men and women. The President offered to commute Oscar’s sentence after he served another 10 years in prison. Oscar declined.
Oscar is the only one of his co-defendants still behind bars. There is an international campaign for his release on humanitarian grounds.
Resolved: CWA calls on the President of the United States to once again offer to commute the sentence of Oscar López Rivera. This is not intended as a new debate of his actions, but is intended to offer release on compassionate grounds after Rivera has served 34 years of a 70-year sentence. We also note that all of Rivera’s co-defendants are no longer behind bars.