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Hunger-Striking Jailed Professor Hospitalized

HeadlineFeb 16, 2007

In Virginia, the jailed former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian has been hospitizaled. Al-Arian has entered the fourth week of a hunger strike to protest efforts to force him to testify in another case. Al-Arian has spent the past four years in jail despite a jury’s failure to return a single guilty verdict in the case alleging ties to the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad.

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