Alexandria, VA – December 9, 2008 – Late last week, the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) sent a letter to Dr. Al-Arian’s counsel regarding its 18-month-long investigation regarding allegations that Dr. Al-Arian had been mistreated and abused by officers from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
After 5 Grueling Years, a Moment of Repose
Fairfax, VA – September 2, 2008 – After five-and-a-half years of harsh and gratutious detention, former Florida professor and civil rights activist Dr. Sami Al-Arian was released on bond, reuniting with his family for the first time since his ordeal began in 2003.
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace March 25, 2008Subject: -[TBCJP]- AL-ARIAN HEALTH, CASE STATUS UPDATE On Thursday Mar. 20, more than two weeks after beginning a water and food strike, Dr. Sami Al-Arian began drinking water. He remains on a hunger strike. Throughout his strike, despite suffering from chest[Read More…]
March 19, 2008 By Jonathan Turley, lead counsel for Dr. Al-Arian Dr. Al-Arian Continues Hunger Strike I have just returned from visiting Dr. Al-Arian, who was transferred back to Northern Neck Regional Jail yesterday. Dr. Al-Arian has now lost 30 pounds and was in a wheelchair when he was brought[Read More…]
March 14, 2008 arabisto.com By Eileen Fleming American Palestinian Professor Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, has spent the last five years behind bars although NO jury ever returned a single guilty verdict against him. On March 3, 2008 he began his third hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw,[Read More…]
March 12, 2008 BUTNER, NC. — Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian[Read More…]
March11, 2008 Jurist JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, attorney on appeal for Dr. Sami Al Arian, says that the treatment accorded the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa – now on hunger strike and in danger of irreversible renal failure at[Read More…]
March 8, 2008 TruthDig.org By Chris Hedges The Palestinian activist Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian, imprisoned for four years despite a jury’s failure to return a single guilty verdict against him, has gone on a hunger strike in Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Va. Al-Arian, who has abstained from food[Read More…]
March 7,2008 Harpers.org By Ken Silverstein When Sami Al-Arian was arrested in 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft declared a major victory in the “war against terrorism.” Two years later, after the Justice Department had spent an estimated $50 million prosecuting al-Arian, a Florida jury rejected charges that Al-Arian and three[Read More…]
March 6, 2008 St. Petersburg Times By Meg Laughlin Sami Al-Arian is on the fifth day of a hunger strike in a Virginia prison, protesting a third subpoena to testify before a grand jury. He has refused food and water and has been transferred to a medical ward. His daughter[Read More…]
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