{"id":2467,"date":"2008-03-18T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2008-03-18T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T16:38:06","slug":"al-arian-embarks-on-third-hungerstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/03\/18\/al-arian-embarks-on-third-hungerstrike\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Arian Embarks on Third Hungerstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031808\/2008_03_18_erlinder.MP3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031808\/2008_03_18_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_VMzDT5E-wjc\/RdVD7hCJnAI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/vDqAVz1Pn9Q\/s320\/sami.al-arian-l.jpg\" alt=\"Sami Al Arian\" \/><em>GUEST: Peter Erlinder, one of Sami Al-Arian&#8217;s Attorneys<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of being called to testify before yet another grand jury, Dr. Sami Al-Arian continues to remain on hunger strike, his third to date. For the past sixteen days, the imprisoned Palestinian activist has been on a complete food and water fast. Believing that the plea agreement reached in May 2006 is being violated, Dr. Al-Arian, a diabetic, has already lost 25 pounds and has been transferred to a federal medical facility. A medical examiner said that Dr. Al-Arian is suffering the effects of dehydration and starvation as a result of his protest. This third, more drastic hunger strike, by the imprisoned activist comes on the heels of his scheduled release and deportation date next month. Al-Arian and his lawyers believe that the upcoming grand jury hearing tomorrow is just the latest attempt by the Bush Administration to keep him in prison indefinitely.  Dr. Al-Arian has been incarcerated since 2003 despite not being convicted of a single \u201cterrorism\u201d charge against him in a 2005 trial. Later, Al-Arian accepted a plea agreement with the understanding that he was to be released on time-served and deported, only to have the judge in the case give him a maximum sentence of 57 months. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesamialarian.com\">freesamialarian.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>To find out who to contact regarding Al Arian&#8217;s case, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesamialarian.com\/help.html\">freesamialarian.com\/help.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Peter Erlinder, one of Sami Al-Arian&#8217;s Attorneys Ahead of being called to testify before yet another grand jury, Dr. Sami Al-Arian continues to remain on hunger strike, his third to date. For the past sixteen days, the imprisoned Palestinian activist has been on a complete food and water fast. Believing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}