Exclusive: Deported Palestinian Scholar Sami Al-Arian on His Chilling Post-9/11 Prosecution
February 6, 2015
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10:08Now PlayingExclusive: Deported Palestinian Scholar Sami Al-Arian on His Chilling Post-9/11 Prosecution
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as posted by the channelDays after his deportation from the United States, the Palestinian activist and professor Sami AlArian discusses the end of his ordeal as the target of one of the most controversial prosecutions of the post9/11 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 AlArian, a Peabody Awardwinning journalist based in Washington, D.C.
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