[news] 25 Years Later, Mumia Abu-Jamal's Best and Last Chance, as French Supporters Face Charges

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World-renowned [black death-row prisoner and journalist [Mumia Abu-Jamal][3] was convicted of killing white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1982 trial that [Amnesty International has deemed unfair][4] [(see report)][5]. [Supported][6] [internationally][7] by [a variety of activists][8], [workers][9], and [educators][10], his [books][11] and [radio essays][12] [challenging injustice everywhere][13] have earned the [former Black Panther][14] the [nickname "The Voice of the Voiceless."][15]][16]

[His court case][17] has now hit the fast track with oral arguments beginning any month. The [3rd Circuit Court of Appeals is considering four issues][18] in regards to [granting Abu-Jamal a new trial][19]. Supported by [the NAACP][20], [NLG][21], [UK Lawyers][22], and [The German Parliament][23], [Philly Journalists][24] [Linn Washington][25] and [Dave Lindorff][26] have optimistically written of Abu-Jamal's [chances for a new trial.][27]

  


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    [1]: http://www.indymedia.org/or/main-features-content.rss/icon/2006/12/876387.jpg
    [2]: http://www.indymedia.org/or/main-features-content.rss/images/2006/12/876387.jpg
    [3]: http://www.freemumia.org/mumiabooklet05.pdf
    [4]: http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/0217-02.htm
    [5]: http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engAMR510012000
    [6]: http://www.zmag.org/mlkjr.htm
    [7]: http://www.mumia.de/
    [8]: http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Mumia/mumiacrisis.htm
    [9]: http://www.millions4mumia.org/voices/labor.html
    [10]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=1&extra=educators_list.php&cat_id=53
    [11]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=1&extra=&cat_id=48
    [12]: http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm
    [13]: http://www.counterpunch.org/cruz06262006.html
    [14]: http://www.prisonradio.org/MumiaInterviewBlockOct.htm
    [15]: http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Mumia/ratmsong.htm
    [16]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=1&extra=&cat_id=51
    [17]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=0&extra=&cat_id=42
    [18]: http://www.emajonline.com/index.php?action=4&content_id=45
    [19]: http://www.freemumia.org/NyashaBryanInterview2.pdf
    [20]: http://www.naacpldf.org/content.aspx?article=957
    [21]: http://www.nlg.org/news/statements/amici_nlgMumia2006.pdf
    [22]: http://www.freemumia.com/UKpress.html
    [23]: http://www.freemumia.org/articlesnewspg/Mumia6-22-06.pdf
    [24]: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2879
    [25]: http://www.counterpunch.org/washington12102005.html
    [26]: http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff12072005.html
    [27]: http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2006/11/mumias-best-and-last-chanc_116433982878097950.html
    [28]: http://mostlywater.org/node/15122

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