DhafirTrial

(Letter to the Post-Standard drawing attention to the fact that the last paragraph of Denis Halliday’s letter was omitted from publication. Published, 3/04/08.)

To the Editor:

I was very pleased to see that you published a letter from Denis Halliday, former U.N. assistant secretary general (more…)

(Published 2/21/08 with the title, “Do we want Dhafir’s justice to be America’s?” The last paragraph was not included in the Post-Standard.)

To the editor:

On February 26, 2003, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, a prominent Syracuse oncologist, was arrested and 150 Muslim families interrogated in connection with a charity established to provide humanitarian aid to children suffering in Iraq. As we approach the fifth anniversary of that arrest, it seems pertinent to question the continued persecution of Dr. Dhafir, an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen of some 30 years. (more…)

Thank you to the Post Standard for publishing Mohamed Khater’s letter.

Mr. Khater’s letter was followed by an Editor’s Note: (more…)

Please join the people below in asking that Mohamed Khater’s letter in response to a Post Standard article about Glen Suddaby’s (the DA who prosecuted Dr. Dhafir’s case) nomination for a judgeship. (more…)

Please write to the Syracuse Post-Standard and ask that it publish two letters; from the Dr. Dhafir Support Committee and from Mohamed Khater, sent in response to the article on the Glenn Suddaby nomination for a judgeship. The letters correct misinformation (more…)

To the editors at the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Dear Mr. Connor and Mr. Linhorst:

The Syracuse Post-Standard’s recent article on Glen Suddaby’s nomination to a judgeship included a number of unfortunate inaccuracies regarding the trial and conviction of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. (more…)

Published, September 26th, 2007. To Whom It May Concern:

I was angered when I read “Suddaby Tapped for Judgeship,” by Mark Weiner and
Jim O’Hara, on the Post-Standard website. (more…)

Sent on 9/27/07, published on 10/28/07
From Mohamed Khater

For your reporters to say that Dr. Dhafir was prosecuted for ‘charges he planned to use charitable contributions to support a terrorist organization in Iraq’ and that he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for that, is ignorant at best and malicious at worst. (more…)