April 23, 2008 VIRIGINA– Earlier today, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who is on the 52nd day of a hunger strike to protest government harassment, began to take a liquid nutritional supplement. Dr. Al Arian’s health has deteriorated rapidly since he began the fast on March 3. He drank no water for[Read More…]
April 16, 2008 Yesterday morning, Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transported by immigration agents to the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Virginia. Since arriving at the facility, he has been subjected to numerous, shocking abuses, even worse than those he experienced at a detention center in Maryland. When Dr. Al-Arian[Read More…]
April 15, 2008 ARLINGTON, Va.– Immigration officials on Monday afternoon removed Dr. Sami Al-Arian from the Howard County Detention Center in Maryland to an undisclosed detention facility. Dr. Al-Arian, who entered the seventh week of a hunger strike on April 14, had been kept in punitive conditions over the weekend,[Read More…]
April 13, 2008 As reported on Friday, Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred that day into the custody of immigration authorities, in compliance with a plea agreement that promised his deportation. He was placed in the special housing unit (SHU) of the Howard County Detention Center in Jessup, Maryland, where he[Read More…]
April 12, 2008 VIRGINIA– At 1 a.m. on Saturday, Dr. Sami Al-Arian was moved by hostile prison guards from a regular holding cell at the Howard County Detention Center in Jessup, Maryland, to the “Special Housing Unit.” The SHU is an extremely punitive and restrictive section of the prison where[Read More…]
April 11, 2008VIRGINIA– Today, April 11, 2008, was the scheduled release date of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, according to the U.S. government, but he remains in prison. Earlier today, Dr. Al-Arian was transferred out of the custody of the Bureau of Prisons into the custody of immigration authorities. One of the[Read More…]
Mar. 25, 2008 On Thursday Mar. 20, more than two weeks after beginning a water and food strike, Dr. Sami Al-Arian began drinking water. He remains on a hunger strike. Throughout his strike, despite suffering from chest pains, severe dehydration, headaches and other symptoms, Dr. Al-Arian was not offered an[Read More…]
March 18, 2008 ALEXANDRIA, Va.– Yesterday, Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred from the Federal Medical Center in Butner, NC back to the local jail in Warsaw, Virginia where he was held previously, to comply with a judge’s March 3 order granting him immunity for a THIRD grand jury appearance. Today[Read More…]
March 14, 2008 Even after being transferred to a federal medical facility, Dr. Sami Al- Arian still has not received water or been offered an IV. A doctor who examined him Monday said he is suffering from hydration and starvation. TAKE ACTION TODAY (URGENT) Please call the Butner Medical Center[Read More…]
March 8, 2008 WARSAW, VA. – Today is the sixth day of Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s hunger strike for justice, in which he is abstaining from both food and water. He has grown weaker and has already lost 18 pounds. Please read below the media coverage of Dr. Al-Arian’s Hunger Strike,[Read More…]
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