Manhattan Vigil for Muslim Held Prisoner for Three Years
Sharmila Devi, Foreign Correspondent
The National
* Last Updated: March 10. 2010 7:50PM UAE / March 10. 2010 3:50PM GMT
NEW YORK // Far from Guantanamo Bay or anywhere else the United States might hold prisoners, a Muslim-American man has been held for almost three years in solitary confinement in [...]
By Jeanne Theoharis, March 1, 2010
A U.S. citizen has spent his last three birthdays in solitary confinement awaiting trial.
Not in Iran.
Not in North Korea.
But in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.
His name is Fahad Hashmi. He turned 30 last week.
But there was no celebration with family and friends, though they are but a few [...]
On June 6th, 2006, Syed Fahad Hashmi, an American citizen, was arrested in London and extradited to the US, all for storing a friends luggage with raingear in his apartment. His public trial was due to begin today, 3 1/2 years later.
By Hena Ashraf, January 6, 2010
Syed Fahad Hashmi, also known as Fahad Hashmi, has [...]
Commentary
Even after the guilty verdict, Aafia Siddiqui will just not go away
By Ridwan Sheikh
Online Journal Guest Writer
Feb 26, 2010, 00:42
While Aafia Siddiqui awaits sentencing on May 6, with the prospect of facing a maximum of 20-year term in prison, the case that rattled the US is far from closed.
Although, the Pakistani government paid $2 million [...]
Commentary
Texas’ Debra Medina, the Fahad Hashmi case: Grounds for hope and despair
By Paul Craig Roberts
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Feb 19, 2010, 00:16
My February 16 column, A Country of Serfs Ruled By Oligarchs, received confirmation from high places on the very day it appeared. Popular Indiana Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh announced that he was quitting the [...]
Analysis
It is Now Official: The U.S. is a Police State
By Paul Craig Roberts
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Feb 11, 2010, 00:18
Americans have been losing the protection of law for years. In the 21st century the loss of legal protections accelerated with the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” which continues under the Obama administration and is essentially a [...]
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 [...]
The Terror-Industrial Complex
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_terror-industrial_complex_20100208/
Posted on Feb 8, 2010
By Chris Hedges
Editor’s note: As a result of errors, an earlier version of this column misrepresented quoted material. The corrected version is below.
The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest [...]
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, [...]
