FIU Students Announce Campaign To Free Imprisoned Human Rights Activist
Feb. 4, 1997
Contact(s)John Suarez jsuare05@fiu.edu
Jose Raul Carro (305)210-0781
http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/armando.alonso/armando.campaign.html
On January 28, 1997 at a conference at Florida International University in which the world's longest serving political prisoner, Mario Chanes de Armas, spoke with other ex-political prisoners. FIU students formed the International Committee to Defend the Life and Liberty of Armando Alonso Romero, a human rights activist, who is now beginning the 4th year of a 12 year sentence tried and convicted of the crime of attempting to collect reports of human rights violations.