Expresses gratitude for support; “Freedom restores dignity and humanity” Northern Virginia – September 9, 2008 – Dr. Sami Al-Arian has given his first public statement since being released on bond, thanking his supporters for everything they have done, and calling on them to keep bearing witness to justice all over[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace July 27, 2008 Sami Al-Arian Subjected to Worst Prison Conditions since Florida More than two weeks after being granted bond by a federal judge, Sami Al-Arian is still being held in prison. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is now being subjected to the worst[Read More…]
Last March, Sami Al-Arian was given a choice: 1) damned if you do; and 2) damned if you don’t; he chose “damned if you don’t”. Finally, a full three months after making that decision, he was formally charged last Thursday with contempt of court, a crime which has no maximum[Read More…]
Counterpunch Legislating Tyranny By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS and LAWRENCE M. STRATTON June 3, 2008 Link:Click here The George W. Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon with an assault on U.S. civil liberty that Bush justified in the name of the “war on[Read More…]
While the Bush Administration has, from time to time, done things which are – ahem – ethically questionable, it has usually made at least a half-hearted attempt to cover them with a veneer of legality. Occasionally, however, it will throw aside any such pretensions. Take Sami Al-Arian, a man who[Read More…]
April 29, 2008 VIRGINIA- April 29, 2008– Yesterday, on the 57th day of his hunger strike, Dr. Sami Al-Arian suspended his fast, at the urging of his family, friends and supporters. Dr. Al-Arian, who has lost more than 40 pounds, began the hunger strike on March 3 to protest continued[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace April 29, 2008 Dr. Al-Arian Suspends Hunger Strike After 8 Weeks VIRGINIA- April 29, 2008– Yesterday, on the 57th day of his hunger strike, Dr. Sami Al-Arian suspended his fast, at the urging of his family, friends and supporters. Dr. Al-Arian, who has[Read More…]
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 2007By Peter ErlinderThe Ordeal of Dr. Sami Al-Arian Despite Acquittal on Terrorism Charges, No Prospect of Release for Dr. Al-Arian Link:Click here In happier days, the Al-Arian family celebrates Abdullah’s 2002 graduation from Duke University in North Carolina. From left: Laila, Ali, Abdullah,[Read More…]
Sami al-Arian, a computer science professor imprisoned for more than five years after pleading guilty to a single terrorism-related charge when his trial deadlocked, is back in legal limbo this week. He faces either deportation or a new indictment that could extend his incarceration for years. Link: Full Article Here
After a failed trial whose verdict was declared by Time Magazine to be “one of the Justice Department’s most embarrassing legal setbacks since 9/11,” the American government has been resorting to legal ruses and an outright manipulation of the judicial system to keep the high-profile Palestinian-American professor Sami Al-Arian imprisoned[Read More…]
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