{"id":1831,"date":"2007-02-21T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2007-02-21T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T13:08:51","slug":"sami-al-arian-hunger-strike-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Sami Al-Arian Hunger Strike Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vfpdissident.blogspot.com\/\">Dissident Veteran for Peace<\/a>, 19 February 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesamialarian.com\/home.htm\">Dr. Sami Al-Arian<\/a>&#8211;a US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/20070211_the_roadmap_to_despotism\/\">political prisoner<\/a> for 1,460 days&#8211;has now been on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/usa\/story\/0,12271,1681680,00.html\">hunger strike<\/a> for 29 days, he has lost 32 pounds, and was recently transferred to a prison medical facility. Al-Arian is protesting his imprisonment on contempt charges stemming from his refusal of the government&#8217;s demand that he testify before a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va.<br \/>\n<strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vfpdissident.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/sami-al-arian-hunger-strike-update.html\">Read more<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Al-Awda-News\/messages\">hat tip<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dissident Veteran for Peace, 19 February 2007 Dr. Sami Al-Arian&#8211;a US political prisoner for 1,460 days&#8211;has now been on a hunger strike for 29 days, he has lost 32 pounds, and was recently transferred to a prison medical facility. Al-Arian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1831\">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-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-tx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}