Dr. Sami al-Arian indicted on contempt charges

In December, 2007, a federal judge in Virginia lifted al-Arian's contempt charge and he was scheduled to be released in early April, 2008. But on March 3, Kromberg issued a third subpoena which, if al-Arian refuses to testify, could keep him in prison for another 18 months.

In the words of Professor Peter Erlinder, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, the treatment accorded to the acquitted but still detained academic Palestinian activist from Tampa is abuse of power amounting to torture taking place in the United States itself under the aegis of the Bush Administration and its "war on terror".

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