[Imc-midwest-regional] UIUC International student arrested by armed law enforcement officials!

Sascha Meinrath sascha at ucimc.org
Fri May 31 15:30:06 CDT 2002


***PLEASE READ, POST, AND FORWARD***

Hi everyone,

The "war on terrorism" just took a giant leap closer to home yesterday
for us here in Urbana.

Ahmed Bensouda, who just graduated this month from the UIUC polisci
program with his BA, an international student from Dubai, U.A.E., a
crucial member of The Israel Divestment Campaign, the Democratic
Solidarity Committee, and Urbana-Champaign Unity & Struggle, was arrested
Thursday afternoon by armed INS agents at his Urbana apartment.

The Urbana-Champaign IMC is providing breaking news at: www.ucimc.org

For those with a broadband connection, the UCIMC has just finished an
audio piece that will be aired nationally this evening.  It's available
at:

http://www.ucimc.org/front.php3?article_id=5746&group=webcast

Earlier reports that Ahmed was detained by the FBI were not totally
without foundation. His landlord was first advised by those who came for
Ahmed that they were FBI officers. After his initial arrest federal agents
seized his computer files. There is reason to believe this is a campaign
of political repression as Ahmed, an international student from Dubai,
U.A.E., of Moroccan and Gambian ancestry, has been instrumental in
building the Palestine solidarity movement in the USA and at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in particular.

For further information contact Raana (in Urbana-Champaign) 217-201-1547,
and in Chicago, Hadeel, at 217 766 5907 and Matthew, at 773-680-0376.

--Sascha Meinrath
Urbana-Champaign IMC







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