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March 20, 2007 URGENT: SAVE SAMI AL-ARIAN'S LIFE, DEMAND HIS IMMEDIATE RELEASE Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls on all people of conscience to demand that Dr. Sami Al-Arian is immediately freed from his political imprisonment. Dr. Al-Arian is a Palestinian former University of Florida professor who is currently on his 58th day of a water-only hunger strike. He is protesting his maltreatment by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) which violated an earlier plea agreement that absolved Dr. Al-Arian from any further cooperation with the government. According to his lawyer, the DOJ wanted Dr. Al-Arian to testify before a grand jury in Virginia. When he refused, citing his plea agreement, he was sentenced up to 18 months in jail. Dr. Al-Arian is currently being held at a medical facility in North Carolina. Family members who recently visited him reported that he had lost 53 pounds, equivalent to more than 25 percent of his body weight. He is no longer able to walk or stand on his own. More information on Dr. Al-Arian's ordeal can be found in the transcript of a recent interview with his wife, Nahla Al-Arian. See: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/16/1410255 ACTION We ask all people of conscience to demand the immediate release and end to Dr. Al- Arian's suffering. Call, Email and Write:
1- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
2- The Honorable John Conyers, Jr 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 (299029)224- 4242 senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov 4- Honorable Judge Gerald Lee U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia 401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314 Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition PO Box 131352 Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA Tel: 760-685-3243 Fax: 360-933-3568 E-mail: info@al-awda.org http://www.al-awda.org/ New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine http://www.newjerseysolidarity.org/ info@newjerseysolidarity.org 973-954-2521
Generation After Generation Until Total Liberation - FREE PALESTINE! Don't forget to sign the Rutgers University Divest from israeli Apartheid Petition at: http://www.rutgersdivest.org NJSolidarity-announcements is a moderated, low volume announcements list used to inform the community of upcoming events sponsored by New Jersey Solidarity -- Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as events sponsored by other individuals and organizations participating in the struggle against all forms of oppression. To subscribe, visit http://groups.google.com/group/njsolidarity-announcements/boxsubscribe
Posted by konrad on March 20, 2007 07:55 PM
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