Un amigo mio en Nueva York publico el siguiente articulo en una revista de alla:
"Alone, But Not Alone
Published on April 25, 2010
By Daniel Cassady
Amidst the cafes, gift shops and markets of lower Manhattan there is a young man whose basic human rights are being violated, and these violations are completely legal. Fahad Hashmi, 30, has been in solitary confinement for nearly three years, although he has yet to be convicted of a crime. He is being held in the Special Housings Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 150 Park Row, at the corner of Pearl St. in New York City. Hashmi, who was born in Pakistan and became an American citizen in 1991, is under 24 hour surveillance, and allowed little contact with the outside world.
Fahad Hashmi and his family emigrated from Pakistan when he was three years old. He was raised in Flushing, Queens and graduated from Robert F Wagner High School. A devout Muslim, he had long been an activist for Islamic issues and a well-known spokesperson in his community. After September 11th, Hasmhi became an avid defender of Muslim rights and spoke out against the U.S foreign policy and the decision to go to war in Iraq. In 2003 he earned a degree in political science from Brooklyn College and in 2006 he received his masters degree in international relations from London Metropolitan University. Up until four years ago, he had no police record and he had never been arrested. He now faces seventy years in prison.
Based on the testimony of one man, Juniad Babar, Hashmi was arrested at Heathrow Airport on June 6th, 2006, and spent eleven months in London’s Belmarsh prison. His extradition to the United States took place in May 2007, and he is the first American citizen to be extradited under the terrorism laws passed after September 11th. He is charged with providing material support to Al Qaeda. Junaid Babar is an acquaintance of Hashmi’s who stayed at his London apartment for two weeks in 2004. Babar was allegedly in possession of a suitcase that contained ponchos, raincoats, and waterproof socks while staying at Hashmi’s apartment, that Babar then delivered to a high-ranking Al Qaeda official in Pakistan. According to Hashmi’s attorney Sean Maher,
“the charges against Fashad are not that he was a member of Al Qaeda, not that he gave any money to Al Qaeda, not that he gave any military weapons to Al Qaeda […] but that he allowed a person to keep ponchos and waterproof socks in his apartment that then went to Al Qaeda”.
Yet he is being treated as if he were a terrorist.
The web site freefahad.com outlines the inhumane conditions of his incarceration. He is allowed one visit every other week by a member of his immediate family, although physical contact is not permitted. He may ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ write one letter per week to one family member, and the letter can be no longer than three pages. The ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ other people he has contact with are his attorneys and prison officials. He may not communicate with the media in any way and he has restricted access to periodicals and other reading materials. The newspapers he is allowed to read are heavily censored and must be at least thirty days old. The majority of the evidence against Hashmi is classified under the Classified Information Procedures Act. His lawyers, who were given CIA level clearance to review the evidence, are prohibited from discussing many of the details of the case with Hashmi, or with any experts who don’t have clearance, severely compromising his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial.
The extreme conditions under which Hashmi is being held under are known as Special Administrative Measures (SAMs). The first hit of a Google search for the term special administrative measures brings you to the U.S. Justice Departments Attorney’s Manual, chapter 9-24.000. Here it states that special administrative measures can be implemented when
“[…] there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury to persons, or substantial damage to property that would entail the risk of death or serious bodily injury to persons […]”
and that these measures
“may include housing the inmate in administrative detention and/or limiting certain privileges, including, but not limited to, correspondence, visiting, interviews with representatives of the news media, and use of the telephone, as is reasonably necessary to protect persons against the risk of acts of violence or terrorism.”
Keep in mind that Hashmi has not yet been convicted of any crime nor did he show any signs of violent behavior while in Belmarsh prison.
One can’t help but think that his personal and religious views are to blame for his unfair treatment. Jean Theoharis, a professor at Brooklyn College who taught Hashmi in 2002 and is a major supporter of Hashmi’s, worked closely with Hashmi on his senior seminar paper, which dealt with the treatment of Muslim groups within The United States and the violations of civil rights and liberties that many groups were facing. On Hashmi’s incarceration his former professor said,
“Needless to say, this feels particularly chilling […] as we have now witnessed his own rights being violated.”
The conditions under which Fahad Hashmi is being held, whether he is guilty of the charges against him or not, are simply inhumane. They can and should be seen as a form of torture. His supporters believe he is being mistreated because of his beliefs as a Muslim and his outspokenness on Islamic issues both of which are protected under the First Amendment. Corey Robin, another professor of political science at Brooklyn College said,
“The concern I have with this case against Fahad is that if it goes forward in the manner in which I fear it will go forward, we will be undoing the twentieth century, and that’s something that all of us who care about civil rights and civil liberties ought to be concerned about.”
Supporters will be gathering in front of the SDNY courthouse at 500 Pearl St. in New York City at the start of Hashmi’s trial, which is set for Wednesday, April 28th."
Alli esta el resultado de las politicas republicanas en la vida cotidiana de un ciudadano estadounidense que ha sido sistematico senhalado por sus diferencias culturales.
Como hara George W. Bush para devolverle todos estos anhos perdidos?
"Alone, But Not Alone
Published on April 25, 2010
By Daniel Cassady
Amidst the cafes, gift shops and markets of lower Manhattan there is a young man whose basic human rights are being violated, and these violations are completely legal. Fahad Hashmi, 30, has been in solitary confinement for nearly three years, although he has yet to be convicted of a crime. He is being held in the Special Housings Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 150 Park Row, at the corner of Pearl St. in New York City. Hashmi, who was born in Pakistan and became an American citizen in 1991, is under 24 hour surveillance, and allowed little contact with the outside world.
Fahad Hashmi and his family emigrated from Pakistan when he was three years old. He was raised in Flushing, Queens and graduated from Robert F Wagner High School. A devout Muslim, he had long been an activist for Islamic issues and a well-known spokesperson in his community. After September 11th, Hasmhi became an avid defender of Muslim rights and spoke out against the U.S foreign policy and the decision to go to war in Iraq. In 2003 he earned a degree in political science from Brooklyn College and in 2006 he received his masters degree in international relations from London Metropolitan University. Up until four years ago, he had no police record and he had never been arrested. He now faces seventy years in prison.
Based on the testimony of one man, Juniad Babar, Hashmi was arrested at Heathrow Airport on June 6th, 2006, and spent eleven months in London’s Belmarsh prison. His extradition to the United States took place in May 2007, and he is the first American citizen to be extradited under the terrorism laws passed after September 11th. He is charged with providing material support to Al Qaeda. Junaid Babar is an acquaintance of Hashmi’s who stayed at his London apartment for two weeks in 2004. Babar was allegedly in possession of a suitcase that contained ponchos, raincoats, and waterproof socks while staying at Hashmi’s apartment, that Babar then delivered to a high-ranking Al Qaeda official in Pakistan. According to Hashmi’s attorney Sean Maher,
“the charges against Fashad are not that he was a member of Al Qaeda, not that he gave any money to Al Qaeda, not that he gave any military weapons to Al Qaeda […] but that he allowed a person to keep ponchos and waterproof socks in his apartment that then went to Al Qaeda”.
Yet he is being treated as if he were a terrorist.
The web site freefahad.com outlines the inhumane conditions of his incarceration. He is allowed one visit every other week by a member of his immediate family, although physical contact is not permitted. He may ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ write one letter per week to one family member, and the letter can be no longer than three pages. The ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ other people he has contact with are his attorneys and prison officials. He may not communicate with the media in any way and he has restricted access to periodicals and other reading materials. The newspapers he is allowed to read are heavily censored and must be at least thirty days old. The majority of the evidence against Hashmi is classified under the Classified Information Procedures Act. His lawyers, who were given CIA level clearance to review the evidence, are prohibited from discussing many of the details of the case with Hashmi, or with any experts who don’t have clearance, severely compromising his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial.
The extreme conditions under which Hashmi is being held under are known as Special Administrative Measures (SAMs). The first hit of a Google search for the term special administrative measures brings you to the U.S. Justice Departments Attorney’s Manual, chapter 9-24.000. Here it states that special administrative measures can be implemented when
“[…] there is a substantial risk that a prisoner’s communications or contacts with persons could result in death or serious bodily injury to persons, or substantial damage to property that would entail the risk of death or serious bodily injury to persons […]”
and that these measures
“may include housing the inmate in administrative detention and/or limiting certain privileges, including, but not limited to, correspondence, visiting, interviews with representatives of the news media, and use of the telephone, as is reasonably necessary to protect persons against the risk of acts of violence or terrorism.”
Keep in mind that Hashmi has not yet been convicted of any crime nor did he show any signs of violent behavior while in Belmarsh prison.
One can’t help but think that his personal and religious views are to blame for his unfair treatment. Jean Theoharis, a professor at Brooklyn College who taught Hashmi in 2002 and is a major supporter of Hashmi’s, worked closely with Hashmi on his senior seminar paper, which dealt with the treatment of Muslim groups within The United States and the violations of civil rights and liberties that many groups were facing. On Hashmi’s incarceration his former professor said,
“Needless to say, this feels particularly chilling […] as we have now witnessed his own rights being violated.”
The conditions under which Fahad Hashmi is being held, whether he is guilty of the charges against him or not, are simply inhumane. They can and should be seen as a form of torture. His supporters believe he is being mistreated because of his beliefs as a Muslim and his outspokenness on Islamic issues both of which are protected under the First Amendment. Corey Robin, another professor of political science at Brooklyn College said,
“The concern I have with this case against Fahad is that if it goes forward in the manner in which I fear it will go forward, we will be undoing the twentieth century, and that’s something that all of us who care about civil rights and civil liberties ought to be concerned about.”
Supporters will be gathering in front of the SDNY courthouse at 500 Pearl St. in New York City at the start of Hashmi’s trial, which is set for Wednesday, April 28th."
Alli esta el resultado de las politicas republicanas en la vida cotidiana de un ciudadano estadounidense que ha sido sistematico senhalado por sus diferencias culturales.
Como hara George W. Bush para devolverle todos estos anhos perdidos?
