President Barack Obama has granted clemency to Oscar Lopez-Rivera who has been in federal prison since 1981. Lopez-Rivera grew up in Chicago and was convicted of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the ...

Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera has returned to Puerto Rico to serve the remainder of his sentence commuted by former president Barack Obama just before he left office. Lopez Rivera, 74, ...

Oscar Lopez Rivera, the Puerto Rican nationalist who’s a freedom fighter to his supporters but a political terrorist to his critics, spoke at Long Island’s Hofstra University on Thursday, as the ...

A police officer walks past a mural of Oscar López Rivera in New York.Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig During the final days of his presidency, Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 64 people in prison.

November 23 was a gorgeous day. Cool breezes blew through the streets and the temperature was nothing short of ideal on what I expected to be a stifling hot Saturday afternoon. Even the trees on the ...

The fight to release Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera continues to gain momentum and followers. López Rivera, 71, has been imprisoned for 33 years in the United States charged ...

A large crowd gathered in Humboldt Park on May 18, 2017, to welcome home Puerto Rican nationalist and leader of FALN, Oscar Lopez Rivera, newly free after more than three decades in prison. President ...

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies lost more than half its City Council funding last year after its leaders refused to support convicted terrorist leader Oscar Lopez Rivera’s starring role in the ...

Freedom has not always been free for Oscar López Rivera. In fact, until last year, López Rivera had been considered the “world’s longest political prisoner”, having served roughly 35 years in federal ...

Yes, Oscar will be there. The 1199 SEIU event is for políticos and religious leaders from 9-11 a.m. this Saturday, June 10. It's invitation-only, so don’t even bother showing up to the Penthouse at ...

Former Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera argued for an independent, “decolonized” Puerto Rico at an event on Friday that also touched on his time in prison and the importance of ...