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(回答先: テロ関与の疑いで大学教授らを逮捕 フロリダ州 投稿者 はちまき伍長 日時 2003 年 2 月 21 日 07:42:18)
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition statement on the arrest of Florida Professor
Sami Al-Arian
Early this morning, Thursday, February 20, 2003, FBI agents
in Tampa, Florida, arrested Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian
professor from the University of South Florida (USF). As he
was led into the Tampa headquarters of the FBI, Al-Arian told
reporters: "It's all about politics."
Dr. Al-Arian has gained widespread support over the last year
and a half after being placed on forced leave and banned from
the USF campus shortly after September 11. Almost one year
ago, on February 21, 2002, the United States Attorney for
the Middle District of Florida, Mac Cauley, issued a statement
acknowledging that Dr. Al-Arian was under investigation.
Today and for many years, Sami Al-Arian has been targeted
by the government, media and academic establishment
because he is a consistent and outspoken supporter of the
right of the Palestinian people to live free from occupation, as
well as a proponent of civil liberties and civil rights.
Dr. Al-Arian is among several others arrested by the FBI
today; there were other arrests in Florida and Illinois. They
are among thousands of people of Middle Eastern decent and
other immigrants who have been investigated, arrested,
interrogated, detained and/or deported since September 11.
Following Attorney General John Ashcroft's announcement of
the 100-count indictment that charges these men with
allegedly "financing, extolling and assisting acts of terrorism,"
Dr. Al-Arian's attorney, Nicholas Matassini, stated: "He's a
political prisoner right now as we speak." Matassini called
Ashcroft's indictment "a work of fiction."
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON SAMI AL-ARIAN
Shortly after September 11, 2001, Dr. Al-Arian appeared on
the fervently right-wing Fox TV's Bill O'Reilly Factor show,
where O'Reilly accused him of having "terrorist connections."
According to a document produced by USF faculty entitled
"The United Faculty of Florida defends the Due Process rights,
and Academic Freedom & Tenure rights of USF Professor Sami
Al-Arian," on September 27, the USF administration suspended
Dr. Al-Arian, and on December 19 they sent him a letter of
dismissal, then modified this letter to state that he "wasn't
fired so much as subject to being fired."
Since that time, Dr. Al-Arian and many supporters around the
country have been fighting to be reinstated at USF. On April
25, 2002, the Executive Council and Delegate Assembly of the
Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New
York, American Federation of Teachers Local 2334, passed a
resolution in support of Dr. Al-Arian, and on June 20, 2002,
American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman
sent a letter to USF President Judy Genshaft in supporting his
rights.
On December 16, 2002, a federal district court judge
dismissed a case brought by USF which asked the court to
clarify the constitutional issues surrounding the firing. USF
brought the case in an attempt to bolster support and
confidence in proceeding with the firing, but the court
dismissed the case and left it to the USF administration to
either fire or reinstate Dr. Al-Arian. USF President Genshaft
said her plan was the former.
According to the Academic Free Speech website, which is
devoted supporting Dr. Al-Arian in his struggle to resume
teaching at USF, Dr. Sami Al-Arian's family is from Jerusalem
and Jaffa, Palestine. He was born in Kuwait, lived in Egypt,
and then studied at Southern Illinois University and North
Carolina State University. He became a professor at USF in
1986, has received tenure, several teaching awards, and has
over forty published works.
Dr. Al-Arian has helped to establish several organizations,
including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA, est.
1981) and many affiliated organizations. In 1990, he
co-founded the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), a
research and academic institution. In 1997, Dr. Al-Arian
helped to found the Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and
Peace, which has fought against the arrest, imprisonment and
deportation of Dr. Mazen Al-Najjar; and in the same year
co-founded the National Coalition to Protect Political
Freedom, which he was elected the president of in 2000. Dr.
Al-Najjar is Dr. Al-Arian's brother-in-law, who in 2002 was
deported after being held in U.S. jails without charges for
nearly five years using "secret evidence."
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition joins the organizations and
individuals worldwide who are condemning Bush's and
Ashcroft's political targeting of Dr. Al-Arian.
http://www.InternationalANSWER.org/news/update/022103alarian.html
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