[Ppnews] FBI copied tens of thousands of documents seized from anti-war activists

[Political Prisoner News]

FBI confirms that they copied tens of thousands 
of documents seized from the homes of local 
anti-war activists; originals returned, indictments still looming

Published on Wed, 2011-11-02 12:08
http://www.stopfbi.net/2011/11/2/fbi-confirms-they-copied-tens-thousands-documents-seized-homes-local-anti-war-activists-or

For Immediate Release
November 1, 2011
    * FBI finishes copying more than 50,000 pages 
of materials seized from homes of Minneapolis 
peace and international solidarity activists – 
now they give back the originals
    * Serious FBI violation of civil rights

Photo opportunity: Anti war activists and the 
returned boxes of materials seized by FBI will be 
available November 2, 4:30 pm at DeLeon and 
Nestor Law Office, 3547 Cedar Avenue S, Minneapolis.

The FBI says they have finished copying the 
political material and personal papers seized in 
the September 24, 2010, raids on the homes of 
Twin Cities anti-war and international solidarity 
activists. This afternoon, November 1, FBI agents 
delivered the last batch of notebooks, family 
photos, membership lists for anti-war groups, and 
political documents to the office of attorney 
Bruce Nestor. The FBI has been returning the 
material seized in the raids over the last several weeks.

“This is a serious violation of our right to 
organize against war,” states Jess Sundin of the 
Twin Cities-based Anti-War Committee. “The FBI 
took the computers from the office of the 
Anti-War Committee and made copies of lists that 
include thousands of our supporters. They copied 
notes from meetings and plans for events. They 
took our personal papers, political materials and 
books from my home. They are stepping all over 
our rights to organize, associate and speak out.”

The material that the FBI copied and returned 
comes from the homes of Twin Cities activists 
Jess Sundin, Steff Yorek, Mick Kelly, Meredith 
Aby, Anh Pham and Tracy Molm, and the office of 
the Anti-War Committee. They are among the 23 
anti-war and international solidarity activists 
summoned to appear in front of a Chicago grand 
jury headed by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, 
investigating ‘material support for terrorism.’

The U.S. Attorney’s office is threatening to indict the anti-war activists.

Mick Kelly, of the Committee to Stop FBI 
Repression states, “We have done nothing wrong. 
The FBI should destroy the copies of everything they took.”

The FBI returned the copied material only after 
Attorney Bruce Nestor filed a motion in Federal 
Court to demanding that Jess Sundin’s property be 
returned. The hearing on that motion, scheduled 
for November 10, will be canceled once activists 
confirm that everything was indeed returned.

More than 20 Twin Cities activists will attend 
the national conference organized by the 
Committee to Stop FBI repression in Chicago this 
Saturday, Nov. 5, to build the fight against the 
ongoing attacks on anti-war and international solidarity activists.




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