Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace April 10, 2003 Newly-formed NLF to Focus on Defense of Political and Constitutional Cases Washington D.C.– Several national and local Muslim leaders, along with other local civil and human rights activists, announced today the formation of the National Liberty Fund to help coordinate[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace April 13, 2003 Dr. Al-Arian Denied Bond URGENT DONATIONS NEEDED FOR DR. AL-ARIAN’S LEGAL DEFENSE Tampa– On April 10, 2003, Judge Mark A. Pizzo of Tampa, Florida denied bail for Dr. Sami Al-Arian. The Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace regrets Judge[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace June 5, 2003 Dear Friends, I need your help. Dr. Sami Al-Arian has been in the maximum security wing of the Federal Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida since March 27, 2003. Despite testimony from friends and associates as to his compassionate and sterling character,[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace June 11, 2003 Tampa– On Monday morning, June 9, Nahla Al-Arian drove 90 minutes through a pouring rain to visit her husband, Sami, at the Federal Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida. Once she arrived, she was kept waiting for an hour, only to learn[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace June 16, 2003 Tampa– On Saturday June 14, the American Associate of University Professors, a group influential in higher education condemned the University of South Florida for firing Dr. Sami Al-Arian. Members of the association also asked an investigative committee to reconsider action[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace June 19, 2003 Tampa– At a hearing at Coleman Federal Penitentiary yesterday, prison officials deprived Dr. Sami Al-Arian of phone calls to family and friends for a period of six months. Officials said Dr. Al-Arian was being punished because his wife connected him[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace July 9, 2003 Tampa- Earlier today court-appointed attorneys for Dr. Sami Al-Arian filed a motion with Judge James Moody that would dismiss them from the case and allow Dr. Al-Arian to represent himself. Dr. Al-Arian made the decision to dismiss his attorneys earlier[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace July 10, 2003 Tampa– The family of Dr. Sami Al-Arian is pleased to announce that he has stopped his hunger strike as of yesterday afternoon. Dr. Al-Arian, a prisoner of conscience since February 20, has been denied bail and placed in a maximum-security[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace 9-15-03 TAMPA- On Friday, Federal Judge James Moody ruled that access to over 20,000 hours of audiotapes in the case of Dr. Sami Al-Arian would be banned from the public. Access to the tapes was only granted to Dr. Al-Arian and his co-defendants’[Read More…]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace October 6, 2003 After a brief “vacation” at the Orient Road Jail in Tampa (where he was allowed to see some of the evidence), Sami Al-Arian has been moved back to the federal prison at Coleman, Florida. Coleman is not designed to hold[Read More…]
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