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Mumia supporters protest latest legal setback

Published Jun 23, 2005 10:10 PM

Mumia supporters protest
latest legal setback.

On June 16, an emergency demonstration was held outside Philadelphia’s City Hall to protest the latest legal setback in the struggle to free death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

The anti-death-penalty activists passed out leaflets to hundreds of passersby and motorists that explained what was behind the May 27 ruling made by the Common Pleas Court.


Pam Africa

This state appeals court outlined its intent not to grant Abu-Jamal an evidentiary hearing that would have allowed suppressed testimony to finally be heard that could prove he did not kill a white policeman on Dec. 9, 1981. The African American revolutionary journalist has been languishing on death row since July 1982 as a result of a first-degree murder conviction reached after a sham of a trial.

Besides the mass leafleting, a rally took place for several hours. The speakers included Pam Africa, leader of Inter national Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Sundiata Sadiq, vice-president of the Ossining chapter of the NAACP; Monica Moorehead and Dustin Langley of the International Action Center; Suzanne Ross and Gwen Debrow of the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal coalition, and many more.


Monica Moorehead

Throughout the day, delegations of Abu-Jamal supporters visited the office of Mayor John Street to demand that he come out publicly in support of Abu-Jamal’s right to a new trial. Abu-Jamal’s attorneys filed a reconsideration brief on June 16 in response to the May 27 ruling. This brief raised convincing arguments as to why Abu-Jamal should be granted an evidentiary hearing which should lead to him being granted a new trial.