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<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);"><em>Important
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<small>Barry Jonas, of Chicago U.S. Attorney’s
Office, refuses to return materials from FBI raid</small></h2>
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<small>Cites ongoing investigation of anti-war
and international solidarity activists</small></h2>
In late July 2012, Northern Illinois Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry
Jonas refused to return much of the material seized in the FBI raid on
the home of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Abudayyeh</a>, citing the ongoing “material support for terrorism”
investigation that is underway against anti-war, Palestinian and
international solidarity activists.<br>
<br>
Barry Jonas is well known for participating in one of the worst
violations of civil liberties in the past decade. He played a leading
role in prosecuting the leaders of the United Holy Land Foundation
while he was trial attorney for the Department of Justice
Counter-terrorism Section.<br>
<br>
Michael Deutsch, Abudayyeh's lawyer, who has a long history of fighting
government repression, stated, "The continuing investigation after
almost two years is grossly unjust and an effort by the Obama
administration to silence those who speak and organize against U.S.
policies at home and around the world."<br>
<br>
The Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office has told lawyers representing the
anti-war and international solidarity activists that they are preparing
“multiple indictments of multiple people.” Barry Jonas’ refusal to
return Abudayyeh’s papers is the latest confirmation that the
investigation has not ended and that the Justice Department is
continuing its vendetta against those who are working for peace with
justice. This needs to be taken seriously. In a number of “material
support of terrorism” cases, there has been a gap of one to three or
more years between the FBI raids and indictments.<br>
<br>
In <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">September
of 2010</a>, more than 70 FBI agents took part in a series of
coordinated raids on the homes of well-known anti-war, labor and
international solidarity activists, along with the office of the Twin
Cities based Anti-War Committee. A total of 23 activists, including
Abudayyeh, were subpoenaed to a Chicago grand jury. All of them refused
to testify in the secret proceedings.<br>
<br>
Most of the activists targeted in this case, including Abudayyeh,
helped organize the massive protest at the 2008 Republican National
Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. At that time, an undercover law
enforcement officer, going by the name of “<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Karen
Sullivan</a>,” infiltrated the protest efforts and stuck around to spy
and lie about many of the 23 activists.<br>
<br>
That Barry Jonas is now the lead prosecutor for the international
solidarity activists is troubling. Jonas is a pro-Israel ideologue
whose work in prosecuting the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Holy
Land case</a> exposed his politically motivated willingness to trample
on the rights of accused Palestinians. As the lead prosecutor in the
Holy Land case, Jonas used secret witnesses (the defense never got to
find out who the witnesses were), hearsay evidence and the introduction
of evidence that had nothing to do with the defendants in the case -
such as showing a video from Palestine of protesters burning an
American flag - as a means to prejudice the jury. The result was that
five men, who did nothing wrong, are sitting in prison with sentences
that range between 15 and 65 years.<br>
<br>
With each passing day, the U.S. is becoming a more repressive place.
Hundreds of Arabs and Muslims have and are facing unjust prosecutions,
or have already been put behind bars. Also, a grand jury is threatening
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">political
activists in the Northwest</a>; criminal proceedings are taking place
against <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">NATO
protesters</a> in Chicago; and the Occupy movement has faced a wave of
police violence.<br>
<br>
<strong>The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Committee
to Stop FBI Repression</a> urges all our supporters to <a
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">sign
the pledge</a> to take action now, (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank"
style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.stopfbi.net/get-involved/pledge-of-resistance</a>)
to be ready in the event that international solidarity activists are
indicted. We recently won a victory when we defeated the frame-up
against veteran Chicano leader <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://stopfbi.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b7315d854bc40ca9fa6dd227&id=6b11ae7b1f&e=b7378561ef"
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style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;">Carlos
Montes</a>. We need to do everything in our power to push back against
these attacks on our right to protest, organize and speak out for
justice. Together we will win!</strong></div>
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