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March 3, 2003
URGENT ACTION: Farouk in Segregation Since February 26, 2003, NYC-based Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti has been held in a MAXIMUM SECURITY SEGREGATION UNIT at York County Jail in York, Pennsylvania. Each of the 16 prisoners in this unit is kept alone in a cell behind steel doors for over 23 hours a day. Phone calls and reading materials are strictly controlled. Prisoners are shackled hand and foot when moved, even when taken to the clinic for medical treatment.The Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti is calling for an emergency demonstration at York this Friday, March 7, to protest Farouk's treatment there and demand his release. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR DETAILS, especially if you have a car or if you have contacts closer to York. (York is nearly two hours west of Philadelphia and about an hour north of Baltimore.) If you are in NYC and can't go to York, please come to the regular weekly vigil at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, Friday at noon. ALSO, take a moment to call or send a protest fax or email (see below). The US government continues to BREAK THE LAW by keeping Farouk jailed since April 2002, in violation of the Supreme Court's June 2001 decision (Zadvydas v. Davis) outlawing indefinite detention in immigration cases. Farouk has sued the US government to demand his release. The government now appears to be trying to sabotage Farouk's habeas suit by moving him to York, and by asking the judge to grant a "change of venue" to central Pennsylvania. Call, fax or email David J. Venturella, who heads the Office of Detention and Removal, to protest the government's inhumane and illegal actions, and to demand Farouk's immediate release: Send your messages to:
David J. Venturella If you can, please also call York County Jail warden Thomas Hogan at 717-840-7580, and tell him to get Farouk out of segregation. PLEASE send copies of your correspondence to the Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti at freefarouk@yahoo.com WRITE to Farouk:
Farouk Abdel-Muhti #75122
Committee for the Release of Farouk Abdel-Muhti If you wish to subscribe directly to the CHRI email list (which includes INB and local NYC area events, average 4-5 messages a week), write to nicajg@panix.com (indicate "CHRI list") |