[lbo-talk] Grand Juries

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 09:44:00 PST 2011


On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ferenc Molnar <ferenc_molnar at hotmail.com>wrote:

It's really important to find out what a Grand Jury is and how it operates.
> I've been to one teach-in on Grand Juries and I was shocked at how coercive
> and, in my opinion, extra-judicial it is in its present form. Grand Juries
> have gone after a lot of activists in the past ten years including
> Palestine solidarity activists
>

And one Palestinian has been sentenced to over eleven years in a federal prison for simply refusing to testify to one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelhaleem_Hasan_Abdelraziq_Ashqar

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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