Michigan Human Rights Activists Face Nearly a Decade in Prison

Feb. 3, 2010 Infoshop News

A CALL FOR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY

Michigan Human Rights Activists Face Nearly a Decade in Prison for
Anti-Imperialist, Anti-War Protest

Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar are both facing felony federal assault charges
for their roles in an anti-imperialist, anti-war action that took place
during a Democratic Party meeting in Big Rapids, Michigan on August 16,
2010. At the meeting, which was attended by Senator Carl Levin—Chairman of
the Armed Services Committee in the U.S. Senate—Max Kantar, 23, stood up
and denounced Sen. Levin for his complicity in and support for U.S. war
crimes and crimes against humanity in the Middle East. After Kantar was
finished speaking, Ahlam Mohsen, 23, pushed an apple pie into Levin’s
face.

Mohsen and Kantar now face up to EIGHT YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON for
speaking out against U.S. atrocities and mass murder against the peoples
of Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere.

Mohsen and Kantar’s legal defense team is in IMMEDIATE NEED OF FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE. Please make checks payable to attorney JEROME GOLDBERG and
mail to 2920 East Jefferson, Suite 101, Detroit, MI 48207. Alternatively,
for more information, email the CAMPAIGN TO FREE AHLAM MOHSEN AND MAX
KANTAR at campaignforfreedom@gmail.com. Either way, send us an email if
you’re interested in helping out.

The CAMPAIGN also calls on all freedom- and justice-loving people to
respectfully demand that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western
District of Michigan drop all charges against Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar.
Assistant U.S. Attorney HAGEN FRANK is prosecuting the case. SENATOR CARL
LEVIN should also be contacted and urged to put an end to the POLITICAL
PROSECUTION of Ahlam Mohsen and Max Kantar.

ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY, HAGEN FRANK
330 Ionia Avenue, N.W.
Suite 501
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Fax: 616-456-2408

SENATOR CARL LEVIN
Detroit Office: (313) 226-6020
Washington DC: (202) 224-6221
For more mailing addresses and contact info, visit
http://levin.senate.gov/michigan/

Senator Levin was targeted because of his CRIMINAL ROLE in supporting the
U.S.-led SANCTIONS on IRAQ during the 1990s which killed in excess of
1,000,000 people, including some 500,000 CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE
due to the denial of food, medicines, and water sanitation items. In
addition to receiving more PRO-ISRAEL lobby money than virtually any other
member of the Senate, Levin has also been a major proponent of U.S. DRONE
BOMBINGS in PAKISTAN which have killed mostly civilians, including
thousands of men, women, and children. Levin has always voted without fail
to fund and sustain the murderous and dehumanizing U.S. OCCUPATIONS of
IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN—unjust wars which include vast amounts of U.S.
torture, murder, imprisonment, death, and destruction. The full statement
(with sources) read by Kantar to Senator Levin can be accessed here:
http://www.mecawi.org/Ahlam.statement%20and%20sources.pdf or
http://freeahlamandmax.blogspot.com/2011/02/statement-read-to-senator-levin-in-big.html.

For more information, or to find out how you can help, visit the website
of the CAMPAIGN TO FREE AHLAM MOHSEN AND MAX KANTAR at
http://freeahlamandmax.blogspot.com/ or contact the CAMPAIGN via
campaignforfreedom@gmail.com.

DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST AHLAM MOHSEN AND MAX KANTAR! FREE ALL POLITICAL
PRISONERS!