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The Al-Arian Verdict’s Seventh Anniversary

The Al-Arian Verdict’s Seventh Anniversary

December 6 should Be Celebrated as “First Amendment Day” Washington – Dec. 6, 2012 December 6, 2005 shall be remembered as a great day in which justice triumphed over intolerance and the First Amendment reigned supreme. On that day, a jury of twelve ordinary citizens refused to return a single[Read More…]

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When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism by Laila Al-Arian

When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism by Laila Al-Arian

The Nation. June 13, 2012 For a while, the phone stopped ringing. Not completely—reporters called, but many old friends did not. That’s how my mother remembers the days following my father’s arrest on terrorism charges in February 2003. At dawn, a team of FBI agents and police, clad in black[Read More…]

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When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism (6/13/2012)

When Your Father Is Accused of Terrorism (6/13/2012)

Source: The Nation Magazine By: Laila Al-Arian June 13, 2012 | This article appeared in the July 2-9, 2012 edition of The Nation. TIM ROBINSON For a while, the phone stopped ringing. Not completely—reporters called, but many old friends did not. That’s how my mother remembers the days following my[Read More…]

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Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian  by William Fisher

Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian by William Fisher

May 29, 2012 In a nationwide press conference in 2003, George W. Bush’s attorney general, the born-again John Ashcroft, trumpeted the arrest of Dr. Sami al-Arian, who he described as “the most dangerous man in the world.” All that was nine years ago. Nine years. And, in one form or[Read More…]

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Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian (5/29/2012)

Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian (5/29/2012)

Link: Prism Magazine (5/29/2012): Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian   Never Ending Prosecution and Vendetta: The Kafkaesque Story of Sami Al-Arian By William Fisher. Published on May 29, 2012 In a nationwide press conference in 2003, George W. Bush’s attorney general, the born-again John[Read More…]

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Personalizing civil liberties abuses: The Case of Dr. Al-Arian

Personalizing civil liberties abuses: The Case of Dr. Al-Arian

By Glenn Greenwald – April 16, 2012 Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian whose ongoing persecution by the U.S. Government is one of the most repellent and unjust of any in the post-9/11 era. I can’t begin to convey all or even most of the extreme injustices that have been imposed[Read More…]

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Personalizing civil liberties abuses (4/16/2012)

Personalizing civil liberties abuses (4/16/2012)

Source:Salon.com Personalizing civil liberties abuses By Glenn Greenwald April 16, 2012 On Saturday, I was at the University of Chicago for an event to discuss humanitarian intervention and empire. One of my fellow speakers was Tariq Ramadan, the highly regarded Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford. He’s one of[Read More…]

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Ninth Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian

Ninth Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian

Ninth Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian Dr. Al-Arian still under House Arrest Awaiting Dismissal of Unjust Case Washington, DC – February 20, 2012   On this day nine years ago Dr. Sami Al-Arian was snatched from his family and community by the U.S. authorities in a[Read More…]

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Political Persecution, American Style: A film review

Political Persecution, American Style: A film review

  It is with gratitude that I mention that Line Halvorsen, a filmmaker from Norway, chose to make the outstanding documentary “USA vs. Al-Arian,” (2007) chronicling a short period in the life of a family that has been suffering what is nothing less than American political persecution right in our[Read More…]

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Eleventh Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian

Eleventh Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian

Dr. Al-Arian still Awaiting Dismissal of Unjust Case Washington, DC – February 20, 2014 On this day elevenen years ago Dr. Sami Al-Arian was snatched from his family and community by the U.S. authorities in a pre-dawn raid that the professor described in a poem. Thus, today marks the beginning[Read More…]

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