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<font size=4><b>Freedom Now For Fumiaki Hoshino-Rally At SF Japan
Consulate<br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>START DATE:
<x-tab> </x-tab>Monday November 28<br>
TIME: <x-tab> </x-tab>12:00 PM - 1:00 PM<br><br>
Location Details:<br>
50 Fremont St. at Corner of Mission St.<br>
San Francisco, CA<br><br>
Event Type: <x-tab> </x-tab>Press Conference<br>
11/28 12:00 Noon SF Protest/Action At Japan Consulate To Demand
Freedom<br>
For Fumiaki Hoshino (corrected address)<br>
50 Fremont St./Mission St. near Old Transbay Terminal<br>
San Francisco<br><br>
Fumiaki Hoshino is one of the longest political prisoners in the world.
He<br>
helped organize a protest in November 14, 1971 against the
"Okinawa<br>
Reversion Agreement" which helped allow the US to base nuclear
weapons in<br>
Okinawa. A policeman and women trade unionist were killed and he was<br>
framed up and charged with the murder. He has been in jail under<br>
repressive conditions for over 37 years. A US support committee has
been<br>
organized to demand his freedom and will be having a press conference
and<br>
picket and will demand that the Japanese government release him<br>
immediately.<br><br>
US Hoshino Defense Committee<br><br>
<br>
Also please send solidarity statements to:<br>
k_kanayama19711114 [at] yahoo.co.jp<br><br>
</font><font size=4><b>11/27 International Solidarity Day For Japanese
Fumiaki<br>
Hoshino/Action-Solidarity Messages Requested<br><br>
</b></font><font size=3>Dear Friends,<br><br>
On November 27, we will hold a National Rally to free Fumiaki Hoshino
in<br>
Tokyo. Please send your solidarity message to the rally.<br><br>
Fumiaki Hoshino is an innocent political prisoner fighting behind bars
for<br>
37 years—one of the longest detained political prisoners of the wworld.
The<br>
Japanese prison system is extremely oppressive: most of his friends
cannot<br>
visit him.<br><br>
On November 14, 1971, Fumiaki Hoshino led one of the student
contingents<br>
of the demonstration against so-called "Okinawa Reversion
Agreement",<br>
which in reality helped maintain the US military bases with nuclear<br>
arsenal in Okinawa. One of the riot policemen died during the crash
with<br>
demonstrators. Hoshino was framed as the perpetrator; the
prosecution<br>
demanded death penalty, the courts sentenced to life imprisonment.<br>
He is innocent. There is no physical evidence whatsoever. Only the<br>
depositions of the six demonstrators made in closed interrogation
rooms<br>
in the police stations were the evidence of guilt. Five of the<br>
eyewitnesses recanted, claiming police and prosecution coercion.
Remaining<br>
one refused to testify in the open courts. On top of it, the police
lost<br>
the videotape of the demonstration, in which Hoshino's contingent
had<br>
participated.<br><br>
Hoshino filed an application for retrial based on newly discovered
photos<br>
that clearly contradict his alleged involvement in the death of the<br>
policeman.<br><br>
A broad coalition of labor unions, other organizations and individuals
are<br>
now increasing their efforts to free Hoshino.<br><br>
International solidarity is also developing. Last July, we were given
an<br>
opportunity to hold two events in San Francisco LaborFest: Hoshino
Art<br>
Show and Labor & Political prisoners: From Hoshino To Mumia.<br>
The National Coordinating Center of Labor Unions—an organization
of<br>
militant labor unions and labor activists in Japan—decided to shoow
its<br>
solidarity with Hoshino, holding its annual convention next February
in<br>
Tokushima City near the Tokushima Prison where Hoshino is
detained.<br><br>
Please send your solidarity message to the November 27 rally. It
will<br>
greatly help free Hoshino.<br><br>
Thank you so much in advance.<br>
In Solidarity,<br>
Hoshino Defense Committee<br>
<a href="http://fhoshino.u.cnet-ta.ne.jp/pages/ayumi110811.html" eudora="autourl">
http://fhoshino.u.cnet-ta.ne.jp/pages/ayumi110811.html<br>
</a><a href="http://fhoshino.u.cnet-ta.ne.jp/" eudora="autourl">
http://fhoshino.u.cnet-ta.ne.jp/<br>
</a>Send Message Of Solidarity to<br>
k_kanayama19711114 [at] yahoo.co.jp<br><br>
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