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Please write to the warden at the Communications Management Unit, Terre Haute, Indiana, and ask him to look into the medical conditions in the unit because the health care is so poor it is a threat to the health and sometimes the life of the prisoners. Please be courteous in all communication. (more…)

I’m currently compiling a chronological list of; letters to the paper, articles and other writing of relevance, to Dr. Dhafir’s case. My hope is that this will be an easy way for people to see at a glance what they might like to follow up on.

Below, as an example of what this list contains, is a January, 2005, email from me, Katherine Hughes, to John O’Brien, the journalist who covered Dr. Dhafir’s case for the Post-Standard. I attempted to explain to John why I was attending the trial: (more…)

Nottingham High School, 3100 East Genesee St., Syracuse map
37th Annual Plowshares Craftsfair & Winter Peace Festival

Saturday – 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday – 11 am to 5 pm (more…)

Muslim Charity and the Case of Dr. Rafil Dhafir

By Katherine Hughes

First published, November 2007 in the National Lawyers Guild “Guild Practitioner,” Volume 64, No. 2: www.nlg.org

One cannot level one’s moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything. Daniel Berrigan (more…)

Dr. Dahlia Wasfi has joined the Dr. Dhafir Support Committee Advisory Board. She said she would be honored to serve on the Advisory Board and we are very grateful to her.

[District Attorney Suddaby prosecuted the Muslim “terrorist” cases of Dr. Rafil Dhafir and Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain.]

By Mark Weiner and Jim O’Hara Syracuse Post-Standard 9/19/07 (more…)

This interview of Katherine, about the Help the Needy case and other Muslim charities, aired this morning, 9/10/07, in Dallas, Texas. Available here: Empowerment Radio.

Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary General and Head of the UN Humanitarian Program in Iraq 1997-98, spoke at an evening panel discussion at Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship on Thursday, June 28th at 7p.m. The event was titled, “The Iraq Sanctions and the Case of Dr. Rafil Dhafir: Criminalizing Compassion in the ‘War on Terror.’” (more…)