A special event in New York City April 26 will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the arrest of the late Palestinian activist and Homeland Security detainee Farouk Abdel-Muhti [2], in the room where his supporters regularly met to organize the fight for his freedom. The event will feature a screening of Enemy Alien [3], a first-person documentary on the campaign to free Abdel-Muhti, who was arrested at his home in Queens in the post-9-11 sweeps of Muslim immigrants and held for almost two years. He died of a heart attack just three months after he was finally set free in 2004. The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Konrad Aderer [4], the grandson of Japanese Americans interned during World War II. Others who were involved in the case will also be on hand, including Center for Constitutional Rights [5] attorney Shayana Kadidal, who has since served as senior managing attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative [6]; and MacDonald Scott, legal representative with No One Is Illegal Toronto [7].
Thursday, April 26
7:00pm
A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
339 Lafayette Street [8], corner of Bleecker Street, Manhattan
Muste room, third floor (buzzer #11)
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