Script/Transcript for program: Indymedia: FBI/INS Political Prisoner Ahmed Bensouda
Anti-authoritarian Palestinian-rights activist Ahmed Bensouda was arrested from his home on May 30. Also arrested on that day was Palestinian activist and Boston resident Jaoudat Abouazza. Both were imprisoned for technical immigration violations.
Beginning with an overview of Ahmed's arrest, transport and imprisonment, the conversation covered the implications of a nascent wave of detentions targeting Palestinian rights activists, Ahmed's explicit anti-authoritarian stance, organizing national support for the thousands of immigrant political prisoners, the connections between the struggles faced by the Palestinian and African-American communities and other topics