September 2, 2008 St. Petersburg Times By: Meg Laughlin Link: Click here monitoring device Sami Al-Arian freed on bail in Virginia Sami Al-Arian is out on bail in Virginia today, said his attorney Jonathan Turley. “He is having a very cheerful reunion with four of his children in Washington, D.C.,”[Read More…]
September 2, 2008 United Press International UPI.com Link: Click here WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) — The Muslim Public Affairs Council Tuesday praised the release of former Professor Sami Al-Arian from U.S. custody. Al-Arian, who was released on bail, will be restricted to home detention while he awaits trial on contempt-of-court[Read More…]
September 4, 2008 The Daily Times By Khalid Hasan Link: Click here WASHINGTON: Dr Sami Al-Arian, the Palestinian professor who has been in jail for five years on what many view as concocted terrorism-related charges, has been set free on bail. Welcoming the news of his release Dr Agha Saeed,[Read More…]
St Petersburg Times March 11, 2008 By Meg Laughlin Link: Click here On the eighth day of a hunger strike, Sami Al-Arian was moved today to the Federal Medical Center at Butner, N.C. “He was wheeled out because of his condition, after going without food or water for so long,”[Read More…]
St. Petersburg Times Meg Laughlin, Times staff writer December 11, 2008 Link: Click here In early 2007, Sami Al-Arian was verbally and physically abused by federal prison guards, according to the inspector general for the Department of Justice. Last week, Al-Arian’s attorney, Jonathan Turley, received a letter from an investigator[Read More…]
The Tampa Tribune By ELAINE SILVESTRINI December 21, 2008 Link: Click here TAMPA – The criminal contempt case against Sami Al-Arian may collapse because of the actions of the federal prosecutor who brought the charges in Virginia, two low professors say. The prosecutor added language to what otherwise would have[Read More…]
IPSnews.netMarch 27, 2008By Ali Gharib Link: Click here WASHINGTON, Mar 27 (IPS) – Webster’s New Dictionary defines “justice” with words that represent lofty ideals; “integrity”, “impartiality”, and “the awarding of what is due”. But in the case of Palestinian activist and former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, critics[Read More…]
Tampa Tribune March 31, 2008 By Keith Morelli Link: Click here TAMPA – Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor who remained in a Virginia prison on contempt of court charges despite his acquittal on serious terrorist charges, has lost 32 pounds in a month-long hunger strike, according[Read More…]
August 5, 2008 by Inter Press Service CommonDreams.Org by Charles Davis Link: Click here or here WASHINGTON – Nearly three years after the U.S. government failed to convict Palestinian activist and former college professor Sami Al-Arian of any charges in one of the most high-profile terrorism trials following the 9/11[Read More…]
The Washington Post By: Jerry Markon September 14, 2008 Link: Click here Sami Al-Arian one of the nation’s most prominent terrorism defendants, was about to be released into his daughter’s custody to await a new trial on contempt charges. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg protested, saying that “in this particular[Read More…]
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