Ali Aarrass in London : filmscreening & panel

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International State crime initiativeFilmscreening & Panel : ‘Ali Aarrass pour l’exemple’ by Mohamed Ouachen and ‘Extradition’ by Turab Shah

 

Complicity: Europe colludes with the torture of its own citizens

 

Source : Statecrime

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websites : www.freeali.be www.freetalha.org

DVD Ali Aarrass

Date:

6.30pm, 17 June 2013

 

Location:

Room K-1.56, King’s Building, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

 

The International State Crime Initiative and the London Friends of Ali Aarrass invite you to the UK premiere of the new documentary by Moroccan playwright and film-maker, Mohamed Ouachen, ‘Ali Aarrass pour l’exemple’ (sub-titled in English). This, the story of a Belgian dual national extradited from Spain to Morocco where he was tortured and sentenced to fifteen years in prison at a mockery of a trial, has parallels with the case of British Muslim Talha Ahsan, and a screening of the documentary ‘Extradition’ by Turab Shah about the plight of Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan, extradited in 2012 to a US supermax prison in Connecticut, will follow ‘Ali Aarrass pour l’exemple’.

Extradition film

After the film screenings, there will be a panel discussion chaired by Professor Penny Green, where family members and human rights and prison campaigners from the UK, Belgium and the United States will discuss the interconnections between racism and exclusion, banishment and prison, and ask what more can be done to challenge the double standards that exclude Muslim citizens from the rule of law and leave them vulnerable to the most despicable human rights violations.Penny Green and Noam Chomsky

 

 

Panellists at the event will include:

 

Farida avec photo Ali août 2011Farida Aarrass (sister of Ali Aarrass),

Luk Vervaet (initiator of Free Ali campaign and prison teacher fighting work ban),lukvervaet

Hamja Ahsan (brother of Talha Ahsan),

Avery Gordon (Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-host of No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio programme on KCSB 91.9 FM Santa Barbara).

Hamja Ahsan

Avery Gordon

This event is free and all are welcome to attend, however, registration is essential, please do so here.

 

For more information about Ali see www.freeali.be, about Talha www.freetalha.org Follow on Twitter: @AliAarrass @hamjaaahsan @freetalha

 

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