May 12, 2005 St. Petersburg Times It’s just like any other childhood. And completely different. By Vanessa Gezari Link:Click here TAMPA – Ali is at the computer, reading about an Internet hoax. A man is threatening to eat a pet rabbit unless he gets $50,000. “We have to go,” Leena[Read More…]
By STEPHEN BUCKLEY © St. Petersburg Times published March 3, 2002 Link:Click here TAMPA — Sami Al-Arian jots notes on a legal pad, sets it aside, clasps his hands atop his head. He sighs and scowls. He closes his eyes, covers his mouth, balls his left hand into a[Read More…]
Counterpunch Feb. 25, 2002 By Alex Lynch Link:Click here There were no streetlights down the long back-road; the arms of the yellow gates were left open just enough for a car to fit through. The darkness of the hidden stretch of road left the Muslim community center of north Tampa[Read More…]
Feb. 9, 2007 LE MONDE diplomatique DOCUMENTARY: Norwegian documentary film can also claim to depict political issues that are of global significance. In the film USA versus Al-Arian, we see the jury found Al-Arian not guilty on all counts…and the judge hand down a prison sentence and deportation. Evidence is[Read More…]
EXCLUSIVE: Hunger-Striking Palestinian Professor Sami Al-Arian Speaks Out In First Broadcast Interview of His Four-Year Imprisonment Democracy Now!, February 7, 2007 Link:Click here In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Sami Al-Arian speaks to us from prison where is on a hunger-strike. The Palestinian professor and activist ’s case has been one[Read More…]
March 11, 2008 Jurist JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa – now on hunger strike and in danger of irreversible renal failure[Read More…]
News: Cover No Land’s Man By Rochelle Renford January 24, 2002 Link:Click here Photographer Sean Deren and art director Todd Bates give Al-Arian a place of his own. Part of it is what he says. Since he was a teenager, Sami Al-Arian has spoken publicly about his religious beliefs, his[Read More…]
Dec. 9, 2005 Miami HeraldEditorial: Of free speech and independent juriesOUR OPINION: VERDICT IN AL-ARIAN CASE A VICTORY FOR RULE OF LAW Link: Click here The not-guilty verdict this week for former college professor Sami Al-Arian was a personal victory for him — but it was a much larger victory[Read More…]
Dec. 7, 2005 Huffingtonpost.comBy Eric Boehlert Link: Click here Courtroom defeats for prosecutors don’t come much more embarrassing than the one suffered Tuesday in the Florida terror trial of Sami Al-Arian, who was acquitted on key charges of abetting terrorists. Along with three other defendants, Al-Arian, a former University of[Read More…]
Last March, Sami Al-Arian was given a choice: 1) damned if you do; and 2) damned if you don’t; he chose “damned if you don’t”. Finally, a full three months after making that decision, he was formally charged last Thursday with contempt of court, a crime which has no maximum[Read More…]
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