Number for Avelino Call IN Day
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign has redesigned and republished our website!! CHECK OUT THE NEW AND IMPROVED: The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign has translated this Report from El Comite de Familiares y Amigos de Avelino Gonzalez Claudio to keep our supporters and allies updated on his situation ProLibertad is calling on all our allies and supporters to participate in the AVELINO GONZALEZ CALL IN DAY Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 202-307-3198! We are asking people to call the Bureau of Prisons Central Office on Wed. March 12th, 2008 from 9am-5pm and demand to speak to Director Harley G. Lappin and demand that Avelino Gonzalez Claudio be removed from Maximum Security (where he is in a cell 23 hours a day), he be allowed visitation rights, and receive telephone rights (so he can contact family and legal support). PUBLIC PRESSURE CAMPAIGNS WORK!! WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THEIR CONDITIONS!! PICK UP THE TELEPHONE FOR AVELINO ON WED. MARCH 12TH, 2008!! ____________ Friends and Family of Avelino González Claudio, Puerto Rico March 6, 2008 Avelino González Claudio was transported to Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and immediately appeared in court for identification and upon declaring himself indigent was appointed a public defense attorney. A new bail hearing was set for last March 4th and was postponed so that his friends and family members could prepare for this hearing. He was imprisoned at the state penal institution in Connecticut. The address to write to him is: Avelino González Claudio 09873-000 287 Bilton Road P.O. Box 665 Somers, CT 06071 Avelino is in Maximum Security where he has not been allowed to use the telephone, even to call his lawyers or family members. He is in total isolation for 23 hours a day with 1 hour out of solitary confinement. Avelino has been denied his right to visitation by friends and family members. The new bail hearing rules require that: (1) We identify witnesses to his character that can attend the hearing and (2) That we identify a person that can offer a guarantee of employment in Puerto Rico. We ask that you contact us if you know of anyone who can employ Avelino in some type of computer related work It was decided that the Hartford law firm of Attorney Jim Bergueen and two of his fellow attorneys would take charge of the defense of Compañero Avelino. Bergueen participated in the defense team in the case of the 1985 arrests and was the lawyer for Compañero Carlos Ayes, who was absolved of all the charges against him. We are making preparations for the court to accept the appointment of the attorneys selected for this case. For the time being, Avelino will remain incarcerated in Somers, CT, until he and his lawyers discuss and agree if they will request a transfer to another prison. We recommend that you write to Avelino so that he can continue to feel the warmth of the solidarity that is so necessary when one is in solitary confinement. As his lawyers continue to demand better conditions for Avelino, a letter writing campaign to the prison will begin asking that he be placed in general population. We urge all those who can, to write to the address above in order to demand that he be released from solitary confinement.
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