WHAT HAVE his conditions been like in prison?
WHAT MY husband went through is unbelievable, and so inhumane. They kept dragging him from one prison to another. When they started this subpoena to get him to testify, they chose to take him just a day or two before the month of Ramadan started. He didn’t have to appear before a grand jury until a month and a half later, so our lawyer said, “Just let the man stay at Coleman [Federal Penitentiary in Florida]. Let him fast the month of Ramadan near his family.” But Kromberg, said “No way, those Muslims kill each other in the month of Ramadan, why should I be part of the ‘Islamization’ of America.” Imagine if my husband was Jewish–would he have said something like that? We Muslims are, unfortunately, the new targets of racism. So my husband was taken a few days before the month of Ramadan on a very, very tiring trip. They call it “diesel therapy”–dragging a prisoner when they want him to be tired and exhausted, and coerce him to testify or do whatever. It’s a kind of gratuitous, puniti
