{"id":1878,"date":"2007-03-13T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2007-03-13T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T15:38:04","slug":"ask-atty-gen-gonzales-to-free-dr-al-arian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Ask Atty. Gen. Gonzales to Free Dr. Al-Arian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fasting Inmate Sami al-Arian Could Soon Be Force Fed<br \/>\nBy Mike Baker, <em>Associated Press<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/usworld\/news-article.aspx?storyid=77447\">8 March 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) &#8212; A former university professor on a hunger strike for the past 44 days to protest the circumstances of his imprisonment could soon be force fed, his lawyer said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian who taught computer science at the University of South Florida, stopped eating on Jan. 22 to protest a judge&#8217;s decision to hold him indefinitely after he refused to testify before a Virginia grand jury.<\/p>\n<p>Nahla al-Arian said her husband has lost more than 40 pounds on the water-only diet and is so weak that he needs a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His health is really deteriorating,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We are really worried that there will be permanent damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, officials at the Federal Medical Facility in Butner have told al-Arian that they will begin force feeding if his condition worsens, said his lawyer, Peter Erlinder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an invasive procedure, and there&#8217;s some danger of injury,&#8221; Erlinder said. &#8220;We&#8217;re hopeful that that there can be resolution before that. (U.S. Attorney General Alberto) Gonzales could end this all with a stroke of a pen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/usworld\/news-article.aspx?storyid=77447\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesamialarian.com\/home.htm\">It has now been 51 days and Dr. al-Arian has lost 50 pounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair.com\/default.asp?Page=articleView&#038;id=490&#038;theType=AA\">CAIR: Ask Atty. Gen. Gonzales to Free Dr. Al-Arian<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting Inmate Sami al-Arian Could Soon Be Force Fed By Mike Baker, Associated Press, 8 March 2007 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) &#8212; A former university professor on a hunger strike for the past 44 days to protest the circumstances of his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ui","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}