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Keep up support for Tarek Mehanna<br>
3rd Week of Trial<br><br>
WHERE: Moakley Federal Courthouse<br>
1 Courthouse Way, Boston MA<br><br>
WHEN: Monday-Friday 9am-1pm (through end the of trial)<br><br>
Monday, November 7 will begin the third week in the trial of Dr. Tarek
Mehanna. Dr. Mehanna is being prosecuted on false charges of
"material support for terrorism" because of his principled
refusal to act as an informant for the FBI, for his outspoken opposition
to US wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq, and for his
leadership in opposing repressive policies against Muslims in the US and
elsewhere.<br><br>
We would like to thank everyone who came to court on October 27 for
opening statements in the trial, and all those who have continued to show
their support for Dr. Mehanna over the course of the second week. The
court was forced to open two overflow rooms to accommodate the strong
showing of support at the start of trial; the courtroom has continued to
be full of supporters at the end of the second week. This show of support
is both a testament to Dr. Mehanna's history of service to the community
and also to the outrageousness of the case against him.<br><br>
We are sending out this message to urge people to keep up the support.
It's important to show that the community is with Dr. Mehanna to the end.
<b>Since the trial is expected to last 6-8 weeks, please consider
choosing at least one day each week to attend.</b> Please RSVP to
<a href="mailto:FreeTarek@gmail.com">FreeTarek@gmail.com</a> with days
you plan on attending. (Please note that this Friday November 11th is not
a court day because its a federal holiday, Veterans Day)<br><br>
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People who've been in court to date have seen the falsehood of the
government's charges progressively unmasked. Highlights include:<br><br>
--Assistant US Attorney Chakravarty's claim to the jury--in contravention
to settled constitutional law-- that translating the publicly available
document "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad" is
"material support for terrorism;"<br><br>
--Government agents who executed a "sneak and peak search" of
Tarek's room and computer claiming expertise in identifying
"jihadi" materials, but who were unable to recognize the
simplest and most common Arabic phrases and who seemed to think that the
flag of the government of Saudi Arabia was a "terrorist"
symbol;<br><br>
--The revelation that the first cooperating witness, who was granted an
immunity order, was threatened at the time of his initial grand jury
testimony by the infamous Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Auerhahn, who
told him that he had better "improve his memory". (Auerhahn is
the prosecutor who was found in the past to have coerced a cooperating
witness into giving false testimony against an innocent
defendant--details at
<a href="http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63862.shtml">
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63862.shtml</a> .)<br><br>
Up to date reports on the trial can be found at
<a href="http://freetarek.wordpress.com/">freetarek.wordpress.com</a> .
More background on Tarek's case and the campaign to defend him can be
found at <a href="http://www.freetarek.com/">www.freetarek.com</a>
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