New Jersey Prison Tries to Move Palestinian activist

1. PRISON TRIES TO MOVE PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST Thanks to protesting phone calls from radio listeners to the warden of the Middlesex Adult Correctional Center, Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a New York-based Palestinian activist who has been imprisoned in Middlesex Adult Correctional Center since April 26, successfully fought back attempts to move him without the prison first informing his lawyer. Gilma Carmago, Abdel-Muhti's lawyer, was alerted by Abdel-Muhti to the attempt to move him. She announced the number of the prison on New York Radio station WBAI, and enough people called the warden that he relented and did not move Abdel-Muhti. Abdel-Muhti is being held without a hearing after he was arrested on the basis of a 1995 deportation order, an order which still has not been shown to his lawyer. But Abdel-Muhti was told specifically by federal authorities that he was being arrested because of his political activities, and that unless he informed on people in the Arab community in the US, and on Palestinians in Palestine, he would turned over to Israeli Intelligence. Under the Homeland Security Act, Abdel-Muhti can be held for 90 days without a hearing. (see WW3 REPORT#32 http://ww3report.com/32.html#warhome4)(David Bloom)

Abdel-Muhti suffers from high blood pressure and has been experiencing chest pains,yet the prison has been denying him proper medical treatment, and he has complained about lack of adequate heat where he is kept.

To protest Abdel-Muhti's conditions and to demand proper medical treatment for him, please call the warden at the Middlesex Adult Correctional Center:

732-297-3636

Abdel-Muhti would appreciate letters:

Middlesex Adult Correctional Center
Housing Unit 87408-HPAT
PO Box 266
New Brunswick NJ 08903

To demand Abdel-Muhti's immediate and unconditional release:




Write/Call/Fax:
Andrea J. Quarantillo
NJ District Director
INS Newark District Office
970 Broad St. Rm. 136
Newark, NJ 07102
Phone: 973-645-4421
Fax: 973-645-2304

Listen to an April 29 interview with Farouk Abdel-Muhti and Gilma
Carmago on WBAI's Democracy Now http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/demnow/dn20020429.ra&start=23:01.7