Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace June 16, 2003 Tampa– On Saturday June 14, the American Associate of University Professors, a group influential in higher education condemned the University of South Florida for firing Dr. Sami Al-Arian. Members of the association also asked an investigative committee to reconsider action[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace June 19, 2003 Tampa– At a hearing at Coleman Federal Penitentiary yesterday, prison officials deprived Dr. Sami Al-Arian of phone calls to family and friends for a period of six months. Officials said Dr. Al-Arian was being punished because his wife connected him[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace July 9, 2003 Tampa- Earlier today court-appointed attorneys for Dr. Sami Al-Arian filed a motion with Judge James Moody that would dismiss them from the case and allow Dr. Al-Arian to represent himself. Dr. Al-Arian made the decision to dismiss his attorneys earlier[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace July 10, 2003 Tampa– The family of Dr. Sami Al-Arian is pleased to announce that he has stopped his hunger strike as of yesterday afternoon. Dr. Al-Arian, a prisoner of conscience since February 20, has been denied bail and placed in a maximum-security[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace 9-15-03 TAMPA- On Friday, Federal Judge James Moody ruled that access to over 20,000 hours of audiotapes in the case of Dr. Sami Al-Arian would be banned from the public. Access to the tapes was only granted to Dr. Al-Arian and his co-defendants’[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace October 6, 2003 After a brief “vacation” at the Orient Road Jail in Tampa (where he was allowed to see some of the evidence), Sami Al-Arian has been moved back to the federal prison at Coleman, Florida. Coleman is not designed to hold[Read More…]
Oct. 26, 2003 The abusive situation at Coleman Prison for Dr. Sami Al-Arian and Sameeth Hammoudeh worsens. Judge McCoun has refused to allow any visits by attorneys and seems to waiting for instructions from the Justice Department. Judge McCoun is not willing to discuss his positive assessment of the prison[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and PeaceOct. 29, 2003 TAMPA- The Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace is pleased to announcethat prominent Washington D.C. attorney William B. Moffitt and LindaMoreno of Tampa entered notices of appearance at the Federal DistrictCourt in Tampa, Florida today. Consequently, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, whohas[Read More…]
Nov. 10, 2003 The hearing regarding Sami al-Arian’s conditions of confinement washeld on Friday, November 7 at 1:30 at the Federal Courthouse, theHonorable Thomas McCoun presiding. Since September 11, life in the United States has been like we haveall fallen down the rabbit hole, and this was no exception. First[Read More…]
Melva UnderbakkeDec. 21, 2003 On Christmas Day, the Al-Arian family usually spends the day together relaxing over breakfast and watching the Christmas parades. This year will be different. Sami Al-Arian will spend most of the day shivering in his very cold cell, one of two people at the federal prison[Read More…]
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