{"id":12728,"date":"2010-02-20T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2010-02-20T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:59:43","slug":"seventh-anniversary-of-the-political-persecution-of-dr-sami-al-arian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12728","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Anniversary of the Political Persecution of Dr. Sami Al-Arian"},"content":{"rendered":"

FREE SAMI AL-ARIAN
\nPOLITICAL PRISONER SINCE FEB. 20, 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Washington, DC –<\/strong> February 20, 2010 marks the seventh anniversary of the arrest of Professor Sami Al-Arian by U.S. authorities. On that day, in 2003, former Attorney General John Ashcroft declared in a nationally televised news conference, carried on all major media outlets, that Dr. Al-Arian was one of the most dangerous people in the world.<\/p>\n

Based on these assertions, Dr. Al-Arian was held in solitary confinement<\/a> for 43 straight months during and after his trial, despite the fact that he had never waived his right to a speedy trial.\u00a0Amnesty International<\/em> protested the conditions of his detention<\/a>, calling them “gratuitously punitive.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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