[Ppnews] Demand the Immediate Release of Sameeh Hammoudeh

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  NCA Demands the Immediate Release of Sameeh Hammoudeh
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   May 12, 2006

The National Council of Arab Americans (NCA) demands the immediate 
and unconditional release of Sameeh Hammoudeh, a stateless 
Palestinian who has been wrongfully imprisoned by the US authorities 
for three years.

Currently, Mr. Hammoudeh remains unjustly imprisoned under harsh and 
humiliating conditions, despite being acquitted and declared 
innocent, by twelve jurors, of all terrorism-related charges over 
four months ago. As a result, for the past three years, Mr. 
Hammoudeh's wife and six children have been devastated while being 
forced to endure the severe emotional trauma of witnessing a loving 
father and a devoted husband suffer wrongfully imprisoned.

Unfortunately, the repression against Mr. Hammoudeh using "secret 
evidence" is not unique but instead has become a standard tactic to 
intimidate and repress the voices of the Arab community in the US. 
Indeed, the racist repression of Arabs and Muslims in the US can be 
seen in the case of the Los Angeles 8, Mazin Al-Najjar, Sami 
Al-Arian, and countless others. Like those before him, Mr. Hammoudeh 
has been targeted solely because he is an Arab Palestinian who dared 
to speak out against the crimes of Zionist colonization, apartheid, 
and genocide being inflicted on the Arab Palestinian people.

The jury verdict declaring Mr. Hammoudeh innocent is a reflection of 
what Mr. Hammoudeh himself stated:

Everything was fabrication. Everything was a mere lie, sad lies. This 
is what they did, and this is what they are insisting on doing to me 
and to continue my ordeal, only because I am a stateless Palestinian, 
that nobody is going to care about me, nobody is going to talk about 
my case. I am not a Christian. I am not a Jew. I am not a citizen of 
a powerful country that can ask about my destiny, about why the 
American government is abusing my rights.

Standing in firm solidarity with Mr. Hammoudeh and his family, the 
NCA demands the US authorities respect the jury verdict and 
immediately release Mr. Hammoudeh.

The NCA also calls for an immediate end to the campaign of repression 
and intimidation waged against the Arab and Muslim community in the US.

The NCA also calls on all individuals, human rights organizations, 
and people of conscience in the US to join in the demand for Mr. 
Hammoudeh's immediate release and unconditional release by e- 
mailing/phoning/faxing:

    * Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist
    * Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales
    * E-MAIL: AskDOJ at usdoj.gov
    * PHONE: 202-514-2001 and 202-353-1555
    * MAIL: U.S. Department of Justice
    * 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
    * Washington, DC 20530-0001
    * Florida Governor Jeb Bush
    * Email: jeb.bush at myflorida.com
    * Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist
    * The Capitol PL-01
    * Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050
    * Main office telephone numbers:
    * Switchboard: 850-414-3300
    * Florida Relay/TDD: 800-955-8771
    * Florida Toll Free: 1-866-966-7226
    * Fax: 850-410-1630
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email: 
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phone: 530.756.5548
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