Archive for January, 2009

Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian vs Big Brother

March 14, 2008 arabisto.com By Eileen Fleming American Palestinian Professor Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, has spent the last five years behind bars although NO jury ever returned a single guilty verdict against him. On March 3, 2008 he began his third hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw,[Read More…]

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Dr. Al-Arian Moved To Federal Medical Facility

March 12, 2008 BUTNER, NC. — Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian[Read More…]

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The Torture of Sami Al-Arian

March11, 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 at[Read More…]

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Dr. Al-Arian’s Third Strike

March 8, 2008 TruthDig.org By Chris Hedges The Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, imprisoned for four years despite a jury’s failure to return a single guilty verdict against him, has gone on a hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. Al-Arian, who has abstained from food[Read More…]

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The Trials of Sami al-Arian

March 7,2008 Harpers.org By Ken Silverstein When Sami Al-Arian was arrested in 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft declared a major victory in the “war against terrorism.” Two years later, after the Justice Department had spent an estimated $50 million prosecuting al-Arian, a Florida jury rejected charges that Al-Arian and three[Read More…]

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Al-Arian on hunger strike again

March 6, 2008 St. Petersburg Times By Meg Laughlin Sami Al-Arian is on the fifth day of a hunger strike in a Virginia prison, protesting a third subpoena to testify before a grand jury. He has refused food and water and has been transferred to a medical ward. His daughter[Read More…]

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Day 4 OF Hunger Strike, Dr. Al-Arian Lost 12 Pounds

March 6, 2008 WARSAW, VA. – Today is the fourth 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 12 pounds. Dr. Al-Arian’s children, Abdullah and Laila, visited their father yesterday at[Read More…]

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Day 4 OF Hunger Strike, Dr. Al-Arian Lost 12 Pounds (3/6)

Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace March 6, 2008 WARSAW, VA. – Today is the fourth 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 12 pounds. Dr. Al-Arian’s children, Abdullah[Read More…]

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Dr. Al-Arian called to 3rd Grand Jury (3/3)

Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace March 3, 2008 ARLINGTON — During a hearing in Virginia this morning Dr. Sami Al-Arian was informed that he will be called to testify before a third grand jury. Please read the post below (source: Attorney Jonathan Turley’s blog). The Justice Department Calls[Read More…]

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Dr. Al-Arian Begins Hunger Strike

Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace March 3, 2008 Dr. Al-Arian Begins Hunger Strike ALEXANDRIA, VA.– On Monday, March 3, 2008, Dr. Sami Al-Arian began a hunger strike for justice to protest continued government harassment. Earlier in the day, Dr. Al-Arian was informed that he would be called to[Read More…]

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