March 7, 2008 Harpers.org By Ken Silverstein Link: Click here 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[Read More…]
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…]
For us to feel “secure”What price is being paid?If living in freedomWhy are we afraid? Fear is everywhere All around Perhaps irrational But without any bound You can see it on our facesSense it in our eyesYou can hear it in our whispersFeel it in our cries Looking over my[Read More…]
To Maya Angelou Like the dream of the slave You rise And with the scream of the brave I shall rise In honoring the memory of your ancestors You rise With my stateless brothers and sisters I shall rise Like dust in the sunlight You rise And as ashes in[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…]
During Dr. Al-Arian’s imprisonment from February 20, 2003 to September 2, 2008 He was transferred to 14 different prison facilities in 6 states including several transfers to the same prison. During most of that time he was in solitary confinement with 23-hr or 24-hr lockdowns including the first 41 months[Read More…]
January 2003: Dr. Al-Arian and the faculty union start the first step in re-instating him to his tenured position. AAUP warns USF of imminent sanctions unless Prof. Al-Arian is reinstated immediately. February 20, 2003: Dr. Sami Al-Arian is arrested before dawn and charged in a 53-count indictment in a terrorism[Read More…]
– Prisons —————- ——–Legal Representation for Dr. Al-Arian (2002-current) ———————————–[Attorneys’ Brief Biography: click here]
January 22, 2007: Dr. Al-Arian is again summoned to testify before a second grand jury. After refusing to testify, he is once again placed under civil contempt-postponing his release for another 11 months. He begins a water-only hunger strike to protest his treatment, and the government’s abuse of power, as[Read More…]
January 20, 2004: Sameeh Hammoudeh is denied his request in a rehearing for bail. A judge also orders the government to release more of its evidence. The government narrows its use of wiretapped conversation from the 21,000 hours to 200 hours of phone conversations. Defense attorneys file dozens of motions[Read More…]
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