Laila Al-Arian - The Persecution of Sami Al-Arian Pt 1

1: Sami Al-Arian interview (2002)

2: Press Conference at the Shabazz Center in Harlem for Sami Al-Arian. His daughter asks for his release and right to return to his family. (2008)

3: If Americans Knew collaboration with the Al-Arian family / collective for his freedom (2008)

4: Democracy Now Interview with Sami - Sami Al-Arian Released After 5.5 Years in Prison After more than five-and-a-half years behind bars, Palestinian professor and activist, Sami Al-Arian, has been released from prison. Immigration authorities released him on bail on Tuesday after they failed to explain his continued detention pending a trial for refusing to testify before a grand jury about a cluster of Muslim organizations in northern Virginia. But while he is out of prison, Sami Al-Arian is not free. He must remain under house detention at his daughter Laila's residence in Virginia, pending trial. Laila Al-Arian joins us from Virginia. (2008)

5: Journalist Laila Al-Arian speaks about her father, Dr. Sami Al-Arian. (2009)

6: Laila al-Arian speaking at the Inaugural Conference of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms in Washington DC on October 3, 2010. She is reading the words of her father, Dr. Sami Al-Arian, as he describes the struggle to end the use of secret evidence. (2010)

7: Days after his deportation from the United States, the Palestinian activist and professor Sami Al-Arian discusses the end of his ordeal as the target of one of the most controversial prosecutions of the post-9/11 era. Sami was accused of ties to a militant group, but a Florida jury failed to return a single guilty verdict on any of the 17 charges against him. After prosecutors refiled charges, Sami chose jail time and deportation rather than face a second trial. For much of the three years following his arrest in 2003, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement and reportedly abused by prison staff under conditions Amnesty International called "gratuitously punitive." In a broadcast exclusive, Sami joins us from Turkey for his first broadcast interview since being deported. We are also joined by his daughter Laila Al-Arian, a Peabody Award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C. (2015)

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