[Ppnews] Stop the Deportation of Eddy Zheng

[Political Prisoner News]

Via Maisha Quint:

Hi everyone,


Help prevent Eddy's deportation at his critical 
immigration appeals hearing on Dec 9th! Please 
forward this email widely and attend the hearing if you can make it!

-Ben

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WHAT:

Eddy Zheng’s Ninth Circuit Appeals Hearing – Oral 
Arguments to prevent deportation to China. Eddy’s 
lawyer will be given 15 minutes to make 2 legal 
arguments in appeal to the Eddy’s order of 
deportation handed down from the previous Immigration Judge.



WHEN:

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Please arrive to the courthouse at 9:00am in 
order to be processed in time for the hearing.



WHERE:

James R. Browning US Courthouse

United States Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit.

Courtroom 3, 3rd Floor

95 Seventh Street

San Francisco, California 94103

(Picture ID required to enter Courthouse)



WHAT EDDY NEEDS FROM YOU:

We need to pack the courthouse (100 seat 
capacity) to show the Immigration Judge that Eddy 
has tremendous community support! We will also 
have supporters outside of the Courthouse with 
signs in support of Eddy. Please pass on this 
message to your friends and help get as many 
people as possible to the hearing on December 9th.



CONTACT:

For more information and to get involved in 
planning, organizing, and additional support activities, please contact:



Lisa Chen, Asian Law Caucus

<mailto:lisac at asianlawcaucus.org>lisac at asianlawcaucus.org

415-896-1701



Ben Wang, Asian Prisoner Support Committee

<mailto:apscinfo at gmail.com>apscinfo at gmail.com

510-292-0852



WHY:

In order to prevent being deported to China, 
well-respected community leader Eddy Zheng needs 
your support at his Ninth Circuit Appeals 
hearing. After being convicted as an adult for a 
crime he committed when he was 16-years old, Eddy 
served over 20 years behind bars, where he 
transformed himself into a renowned prisoner 
rights advocate, youth mentor, and poet and 
author.  Released from prison in 2007, Eddy has 
dedicated his life to preventing youth violence 
and delinquency through his work at the Community 
Youth Center, Community Response Network, and 
many other SF Bay Area programs and organizations.



Having spent more than half of his life behind 
bars for a crime he committed at 16, Eddy won his 
parole only by demonstrating to the parole board 
and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that he was a 
model inmate who acknowledged his mistakes, 
expressed remorse for his crime, and did 
everything he could to improve himself.  The 
judge who sentenced Eddy, the Assistant District 
Attorney who prosecuted him, a former director of 
the California Department of Corrections, and 
dozens of state legislators, local politicians, 
and community leaders wrote letters of support 
for his parole. Eddy Zheng now faces deportation 
to a country he left as a child and needs your 
support in order to remain in the U.S.



List of Awards and Committees:

-          2009 Department of Children Youth and their Families Roots Fellow

-          2008 “Outstanding Leadership Award” 
from the  Bay Area Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

-          2007 “Community Hero Award” from the 
Chinese language newspaper World Journal

-          Mayor appointed council member of the 
San Francisco Safe Community Reentry Council

-          Member of the San Francisco central 
police station Citizen Advisory Board

-          National Advisory board member of Asian American Law Journal

-          Co-Chair of Asian Prisoners’ Support Committee based in Oakland

-          Published co-author of “Other: An 
Asian and Pacific Islander Prisoners’ Anthology”



Partial List of Supporters for Eddy’s release 
from prison and immigration detention:



• San Francisco Board of Supervisors

• San Francisco Youth Commission

• Michael Honda, US Congressman

• Barbara Lee, US Congresswoman

• Mark Leno, CA State Senator

• Leland Yee, CA State Senator

• Loni Hancock, CA State Senator

• Carol Liu, CA State Senator

• Gloria Romero, CA State Senator

• Don Perata, former CA Senate President Pro Tem

• John Burton, former CA Senate President Pro Tem

• Sheila Kuehl, former CA State Senator

• Byron Sher, former CA State Senator

• John Vasconcellos, former CA State Senator

• Judy Chu, U.S. Congresswoman

• Phil Ting, SF Assessor-Recorder

• Jane Kim, SF Board of Education

• Eric Mar, SF Board of Supervisors

• Alice Lai-Bitker, Alameda County Supervisor

• Wilma Chan, Alameda County Supervisor

• Jerry Enomoto, former Director, CA Dept of Corrections

• Chris Nedeau, former SF District Attorney who prosecuted Eddy Zheng

• Rev. Norman Fong, SF Chinatown Presbyterian Church

• Dale Minami, Minami Tamaki LLP

• Victor Hwang, SF Assistant District Attorney

• Yuri Kochiyama, Community Activist

• Isami Arifuku, National Council on Crime and Delinquency

* organizations listed for ID purposes only



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