\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contact:<\/p>\n
Gabriela Casta\u00c3\u00b1eda<\/p>\n
Border Network for Human Rights<\/p>\n
(915) 577-0724<\/p>\n
gcastaneda@bnhr.org<\/p>\n
Date 9\/17\/10<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n DEATH ROW SURVIVOR COMES TO EL PASO<\/strong><\/p>\n Public invited to speaking event.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n El Paso, TX \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A man who survived death row, and became an internationally known opponent of death penalty will tell his story on Saturday September 25th\u00c2\u00a0 <\/sup>during a speaking event organized by The Border Network for Human Rights and El Pasoans against the Death Penalty. The Event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n Juan Roberto Melendez was released on January 3, 2002, having spent 17 years, eight months and one day on death row. He was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. Since 1973, 139 people have been exonerated from death rows due to evidence of their wrongful conviction.<\/p>\n The Border Network for Human Rights dedicates itself to the protection of human rights in all its forms, including issues of unequal access to justice.\u00c2\u00a0 The B.N.H.R. expects about 100 members of the community to attend the talk.<\/p>\n La Pena de Muerte No Mas! <\/strong>(Death Penalty No More)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0A meeting with Juan Roberto Melendez.<\/strong><\/p>\n (The talk will be in Spanish)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n When: Saturday, Sept. 25. 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a011:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Where: B.N.H.R. Offices <\/strong><\/p>\n 2115 N. Piedras<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0(between Louisville and Richmond)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n More information on the Border Network for Human Rights<\/em>: This organization, founded in 1998, is one of the leading immigration reform and human rights advocacy organization in the United States. Based in El Paso, the BNHR counts about 4,000 members in El Paso and Southern New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 Contact: Gabriela Casta\u00c3\u00b1eda Border Network for Human Rights (915) 577-0724 gcastaneda@bnhr.org Date 9\/17\/10 \u00c2\u00a0 DEATH ROW SURVIVOR COMES TO EL PASO Public invited to speaking event. \u00c2\u00a0 El Paso, TX \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A man...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}