Free the Holy Land Five! Take Action this Thursday, October 25th
joe iosbaker
From: Hatem Abudayyeh <hatem_a...@yahoo.com>
Free the Holy Land Five! Take Action Thursday, October 25th
12:00 Noon at Obama national headquarters, One Prudential Plaza at 130 E. Randolph Street, downtown Chicago
The Holy Land Five need our urgent solidarity. The U.S. Supreme Court will decide in late October whether their final appeal will even be heard. The Holy Land Five are five Palestinian Muslim charity leaders wrongly imprisoned due to U.S. government political repression. They are being punished for publicly sending charity to Palestinians, at a time when U.S. domination is being challenged in the Middle East. The first Holy Land trial ended in a hung jury, but a second one -- using secret witnesses who were never identified to the defense, hearsay evidence and a ‘shock video’ showing protesters in Palestine burning an American flag -- contributed to prejudicing the jurors. The result is that five men, who did nothing wrong, are suffering long sentences, between 15 and 65 years. The lead prosecutor who used these dirty tricks in court is Barry Jonas. Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas is now in Chicago, conducting the ongoing investigation of 23 Midwest anti-war and international solidarity activists. Jonas is a pro-Israel ideologue, politically motivated and willing to trample on people’s rights. As thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters learned this past year, the U.S. is becoming a more repressive place. For more than ten years now, hundreds of Arabs and Muslims have faced and are facing unjust prosecutions. Many are already behind bars. Help us turn this injustice around! Join author Noor Elashi, daughter of U.S. political prisoner and Holy
Land Five leader Ghassan Elashi, and the Committee to Stop FBI Repression in
a national day of action on Thursday, October 25, 2012. We will be meeting in
front of Obama campaign headquarters at 130 E. Randolph Street at 12:00 noon
with a banner and leaflets demanding justice for the Holy Land Five. Now is the
time to act for freedom! Justice for the Holy Land Five! |
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