BROOKLYN, New York—Nearly 40 people picketed outside the federal courthouse here June 13 to protest a federal grand jury’s subpoena of José Díaz, the fifth Puerto Rican independence supporter to be subpoenaed this year. Washington has used federal grand juries as fishing expeditions to frame up and jail Puerto Rican independence fighters. The picket line was sponsored by the Hostos Grand Jury Resistance Campaign.

—DAN FEIN