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Statement of Concern
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. As his case goes to
trial, we wish to register our concern about the conditions of his
detention, constraints on his right to a fair trial, and the potential
threat his case poses to the First Amendment rights of others. . . . Read more.
The Statement of Concern has been signed by more than 500 scholars and
writers including Norma Alarcon, Bettina Aptheker, Seyla Benhabib,
Marshall Berman, Wendy Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Judith Butler,
Kathleen Cleaver, Noam Chomsky, Joshua Cohen, David Cole, Angela
Davis, Mike Davis, Jodi Dean, Michael Dawson, Michael Denning, Jigna
Desai, Lisa Disch, Ariel Dorfman, Martin Duberman, Lisa Duggan, Thomas
L. Dumm, Susan Faludi, Kathy E. Ferguson, Eric Foner, Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., Todd Gitlin, Michael Hardt, Tony Judt, Ira Katznelson,
Duncan Kennedy, Jill Lepore, Wahneema Lubiano, Manning Marable,
Kirstie M. McClure, Ali Miller, Mark Crispin Miller, David Montgomery,
Carlos Munoz, Cary Nelson, Anne Norton, Christian Parenti, Charles
Payne, Rosalind Petchesky, Frances Fox Piven, Katha Pollitt, Gyan
Prakash, Adolph Reed Jr., David Roediger, Andrew Ross, Saskia Sassen,
Anna Marie Smith, Neil Smith, Rogers M. Smith, Philippa Strum, Mark
Lewis Taylor, Joan C. Tronto, Martha Vicinus, John R. Wallach,
Lawrence Weschler, Melissa S. Williams, Richard Wolin and many more.
See signatories.
About the Case
Syed Fahad Hashmi is a 27-year-old Muslim American citizen. He is currently
being held in solitary confinement 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. His trial is set
for July 2008. If convicted, he faces seventy years in prison. His
case raises concerns about the conditions of his detention, his
ability to receive a fair trial, and threats to the First Amendment
rights of others. . . . Read
more.
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Other organizations of interest
Free Fahad
Center for Constitutional Rights
Council of Peoples Organizations
Desis Rising Up and Moving
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