New Yorker Accused of Helping al-Qaida About to Go on Trial
by Farah Akbar
Apr 2010
New Yorker Syed “Fahad” Hashmi, an American citizen who has been held in solitary confinement for nearly two and half years at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, is finally set to go on trial April 28 [...]
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Fahad Hashmi’s case characterizes overreaching powers that came about due to War on Terror
By Udai Malhotra
We must consider cases such as Fahad Hashmi’s, which illustrates the overreaching powers that have come to characterize the Federal Government, the intelligence community, and the American justice system through the War on Terror.
Keywords: Analysis, Bronx, Government, Human [...]
Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice – by Stephen Lendman
On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined “Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.”
At her scheduled May 6 sentencing, she “faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on [...]
by Amitava Kumar
Author of “Husband of a Fanatic” and professor at Vassar
What do you do if a young man who was a student in your class is thrown in prison on a terrorism charge?
Jeanne Theoharis teaches Political Science at Brooklyn College. In June 2006, when British authorities detained 26-year-old Syed Fahad Hashmi at Heathrow Airport, [...]
Syed “Fahad” Hashmi
Syed “Fahad” Hashmi is a Muslim American citizen being held in a federal jail on two counts of providing material support and two counts of making a contribution of goods or services to Al Qaida.
Syed Hashmi, known to his family and friends as Fahad, was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1980, the second [...]
Background: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
Taken from Cageprisoners.com
Aafia Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, 1972. She was one of three children of Mohammad Siddiqui, a doctor trained in England, and Ismet. She is a mother of three.
Aafia moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother, and after spending a year at the [...]
Restrictive Terms of Prisoner’s Confinement Add Fuel to Debate
By KAREEM FAHIM
Published: February 4, 2009
Charged with providing support to Al Qaeda, Syed Hashmi, a 28-year-old Queens man, has been held in solitary confinement for 15 months in a federal prison in Manhattan.
Syed Hashmi, a Pakistani immigrant who grew up in Queens, has awaited trial [...]
One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists
AP / Mary Altaffer
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan [...]
