Please join the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign on Monday, August 4, 2014 as we remember Yassin Aref on the ten-year anniversary of his arrest by the federal government. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Alexis Agathacleous will be speaking, alongside others TBD.

Beyond the 10th anniversary of his arrest, Yassin’s case has also been focused on in two new studies and in two new documentaries.

Last week, a new documentary, “The Newburgh Sting” – about the Newburgh Four case which involved the same paid informant (Shahed Hussain) used by the FBI in Yassin’s case – premiered on HBO. And on July 20, Al Jazeera English debuted a 50-minute TV documentary by Trevor Aaronson – “Informants” – which examines the FBI’s questionable use of informants in counterterrorism tactics.

What: NSJ monthly vigil
Where: Across the street from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Lower Manhattan
When: Monday, August 4th at 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
RSVP: Click here to RSVP on Facebook

Yassin’ case has also been a focal point in newly published human rights research. In June, the Albany-based human rights organization Project SALAM and Washington, D.C.-based National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms jointly published a new study “Inventing Terrorists: The Lawfare of Preemptive Prosecution” which analyzes 399 federal terrorism cases including Yassin’s that have been prosecuted since 2001. A lengthier study, “Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in U.S. Terror Prosecutions,” was issued this week by Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University and also includes Yassin’s case. See below for links to all of these new works.

The attention being brought to the cases like Yassin’s reflects a growing awareness in the U.S. about the grave abuses taking place in post-9/11 federal “terrorism” prosecutions. Each month the No Separate Justice vigils spotlight an individual case to reveal a part of the larger systematic abuses happening across the criminal justice system in these cases. Please join us on August 4 in lower Manhattan as we build a growing voice from people of conscience. We have plenty of signs to share.

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The No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign – a coalition of community groups, academics, family members and human rights and civil liberties organizations including Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Council On American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-New York, and Educators for Civil Liberties – aims to shed light on and end a pattern of human rights and civil liberties abuses in “War on Terror” cases in the U.S. criminal justice system. NSJ vigils take place outside outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on the first Monday of every month at 6PM. Please join us and spread the word.

Follow the Campaign on Twitter, @NSJCampaign, and join the conversation at #NoSeparateJustice. Like the Campaign on Facebook and learn more at www.no-separate-justice.org and in The Nation’s “America After 9/11” Series.