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General News    H2'ed 4/23/12

Occupy The Justice Department Implicates Obama Administration Integrity

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The recent release of the special prosecutor's report in the Stevens case confirmed that prosecutorial misconduct -- wrongdoing also abundant in the case of Abu-Jamal and other U.S. political prisoners.

The Occupy The Justice Department demonstrators are raising the issue of Holder's credibility and the ethical integrity of the Obama Administration in acting to dismiss the wrongful conviction of ex-Senator Stevens while ignoring the continued imprisonment of U.S. political prisoners that involves misconduct by police and prosecutors.

On December 9, 2011 -- one day before the U.N. annual Human Rights Day -- Noble Peace Prize winning anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked America to "rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights and justice" in calling for the "immediate release" of Abu-Jamal.

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Linn Washington is a co-founder of This Can't Be Happening.net. Washington writes frequently on inequities in the criminal justice system, ills in society and problems in the news media. He teaches multi-media urban journalism at Temple (more...)
 

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