DhafirTrial

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2008
Contact: Katherine Hughes
katherinehugh [at] gmail.com
Dr. Dhafir Support Committee

Syracuse Doctor Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Helping Iraqi People Heads to Appeals Court August 28 in New York City (more…)

Saturday, August 23, 2008, 1-5 PM,
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL, ALBANY, NY, Matthew Bender Room

Muslims have been unfairly treated by the Bush Administration since 911. There have been many unjust prosecutions involving guilt by association, innuendo and twisted sting operations designed to entrap those the government has decided it doesn’t like. These cases have trampled the constitutional rights of the defendants and put us all at risk. Come learn about a few of these cases and participate in discussion of where to go from here. (more…)

Oral arguments in Dr. Dhafir’s appeal will be heard on Thursday, August 28th, 2008, at 10 a.m., at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City.

We will not know until the week before the arguments which three judges will sit on the panel. A decision will not be taken from the bench on that day, but will be given some months later.

More information about the appeal process can be found here.

The Muslim Solidarity Committee invites you to the 4th Anniversary Commemoration of the Arrests of YASSIN AREF & MOHAMMED HOSSAIN on Friday August 22, 2008 from 4:30-6pm

4.30 p.m. March from Masjid As-Salam mosque, located at 278 Central Avenue, Albany, to the Washington Ave. Armory near the corner of Lark Street in Albany. Followed by a vigil at the Armory displaying our signs and banners.

Action Alert from The Washington Report On Middle East Affairs 8/08/08

At a pretrial hearing today in Alexandria, Virginia, Judge Leoni Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia postponed Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s trial on charges of criminal contempt of court. (more…)

Join a Public Vigil at Skyservice and write to the executives of a company that is likely to receive the contract to deport Canada’s five secret trial detainees to torture…unless we can persuade them to refuse an act of complicity in torture

Monday, August 11, 12 Noon
Skyservice, 31 Fasken Drive (just west of Carlingview)
Rides from Downtown Toronto leave at 11 am (more…)

Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council. Both talks are free.

A Government Insider Speaks Out Against the War in Iraq

Thursday, 8/14, 7pm at the Westcott Community Center (826 Westcott St.), Syracuse, New York.

Ann Wright is a retired US Army Colonel and US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war. (more…)

The Return of Legalized Profiling…

By Margaret Kwoka ZMagazine 6/02/08

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a series of decisions mimicking an odd dance. The end result? The first jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a post-9/11 airline racial profiling case against a company that was overturned. The outcome is devastating to all people who suffer discrimination and seek a remedy in court. However, the process by which this decision was reached may be even more disturbing than the outcome. (more…)