After vigorous support campaign
Palestinian activist wins hearing
By Steve Gillis
Boston
As the Israeli war against the Palestinian people, supplied
and inspired by Washington, increases its brutality with deadly
attacks on Hebron, Gaza, Jenin and throughout occupied
Palestine, so too have U.S. "homeland security" attacks against
those speaking for the cause of Palestinian
self-determination.
On Nov. 15, dozens of supporters comprising the Amer Jubran
Defense Committee rallied at the Boston INS headquarters during
the early morning rush hour to demand the immediate release of
this Palestinian activist from custody. Eleven days earlier,
INS and FBI agents had raided Jubran's home in Rhode Island.
They have been holding him without charges at the maximum
security prison ACI Cranston.
Jubran has been a vocal leader at numerous pro-Palestinian
and anti-war rallies and marches sponsored by the International
ANSWER coalition throughout the eastern U.S., and is the
founder of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine.
At a press conference, Jubran's attorney, Nelson Brill,
announced that the defense committee's efforts to flood the
district INS office with hundreds of phone calls and faxes had
won Jubran a bond hearing for Nov. 21 at 9:00 a.m. at the JFK
federal building in Boston. Other speakers at the press
conference included Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, Nancy
Murray of the American Civil Liberties Union, Urszula
Masny-Latos of the National Lawyers Guild, Palestinian activist
Rawan Barakat, and representatives of Amnesty Inter na tional,
Falmouth Anti-War, the Steel workers Union and International
ANSWER.
People are urged to call, fax and write: INS District
Director Steven J. Farquharson; Room 1700, JFK Federal
Building; Boston, MA 02203; telephone (617) 565-4214; fax (617)
565-4765. Please send a copy to: Amer Jubran Defense Committee,
P.O. Box 755, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. An online petition to
Free Amer Jubran is at www.iacboston.org/amerjubran.
Reprinted from the Nov. 28, 2002, issue of
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