Aims/Achievements/How you can help

Aims

• Raise Awareness
Samar and Jawad are INNOCENT! We want to raise awareness about their wrongful conviction as widely as possible.

• Support the appeal against the miscarriage of justice
We fully support the legal efforts to appeal against the convictions, to prove Samar and Jawad's innocence, and to protest against the excessively harsh sentence they received. Even if they were guilty of conspiracy, their 20 year sentence would still be excessive.

• Put pressure on the relevant authorities
We call on the authorities to reveal information at hand and to continue the investigation of the actual bombings, as this will probably lead to the quashing of Samar and Jawad's convictions.

• Oppose deportation
Challenge the double punishment of the deportation orders against Samar and Jawad.

• Give practical support
Provide practical support to the prisoners in custody and in fighting their legal battle.

Achievements
One of the initial aims of the campaign was the decategorisation of Samar and Jawad. Since March 2000, Samar and Jawad are no longer Category 'A' prisoners.

 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

• Join Our Campaign and tell others about this site www.freesaj.org.uk

• Write to the British Home Secretary expressing your concern about the case, the withholding of information and sentence at: The Home Office, 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1 9AT, United Kingdom. (gen.ho.@gtnet.gov.uk)

• Write to The Director of Public Prosecutions

• Write to your MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA

• Write to your MEP, 2 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA

• Write to the British Ambassador if you live abroad

Model letters

• Write to the newspapers

• Raise the issue in your union branch, organisation, mosque, synagogue, church, etc

• Ask your union, organisation, mosque, church, synagogue etc to affiliate to the campaign

• Make a donation to keep the campaign going (cheques payable to FOSA and send to Freedom & Justice for Samar & Jawad, BM FOSA, London WC1N 3XX, United Kingdom)

• Sign our petition (ask for copies or visit our online petition www.PetitionOnline.com/FJSJ/petition.html)

A complete listing of contacts and addresses can be found on our contacts page.

 

 

End the cover up!

Quash the conviction!

Free Samar and Jawad

 Sponsors

Britain
Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Lynne Jones MP, Brian Sedgemore MP, George Galloway MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP, John Austin MP, Rob Marris MP, Neil Gerrard MP, Claude Moraes MEP, Gareth Peirce, Daniel Machover, Bruce Kent, Newham Monitoring Project, National Civil Rights Movement, Lancaster & Morecambe Trades Union Council, Leicester & District Trades Union Council, Relatives and Friends of Prisoners' Organisation, TGWU 1/1111, Unison Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton TUC, Socialist Labour Party (Acton Branch), Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR), Haldane Society, Westminster Teachers' Assoc., East London Teachers' Assoc., Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Arab Lawyers Network, al-Awda (UK), MOJO (Miscarriages of Justice Organisation), ABCross, Dr Ghada Karmi, Nadim Shehadi, Dr and Mrs. Salem H. Khamis, David Watkins, Mr Sabah Al- Mukhtar, Monica Brady, S.Spilling, A. Byrne, Jan Pollock, Peter Court, Ros Young, R.Slater, Jenny Bourne, Mary Mason, Nada Badran, N.Donmez, Frances Webber, Amrit Wilson, Sarbjit Johal, Anne Grey, S.Ramsden, Inbar Tamari, Roland Rance, Sujata Aurora, Linda Balfe, Leah Barnett, Alan Brooke, Helen Chessum, Fuad Al-Tawil, L.Levidow, Helen Collinson, Ray Davies, Betty Hunter, Nada Hudson, Clare Hariri, Margaret Lynch, Diane Langford, Patricia Mantoura, Estella Schmid, Linda Taylor, Kitty Warnock, Joan Vis, John Gee, Jean Wadge, Ralph Wadge, Johanna Jones, Margaret Innocent, Hamid & Shelley Abu-Shanab, Wendy Pearman, Wilf Dixon, Mary Gillard, Ann Foley, JM Budd, Sara Spain, Ludi Simpson, Hanna Khamis, S.Iqbal, Janet St John Austen, Ossi Ron, Irene Progin, Desmond Goodier, S. Tucker, Jim Whitehead, Susan Steward, Hanna Braun, Yael Kahn, Conor Foley, Ali Zaidi, T. Al-Dajani, Marika Mason, Helen Birch, KJ & R Cooper, Leonie Snell, Doug Thorpe, Claire Moon, Dr Uri Davis, Sandra McNeill, R.Bouziani, Margaret Lyell, Kate Reynolds, Hanan Al- Shaykh, Alex Kenny, Alison Kelly, Antonia Benedek, E.Franks, Dr Michael Fahy, Dr .Dyer, Ken Faro, Ann Restall, Emma Playfair, JR & GM Dawkins, Michael Dumper, R. Farooqi, Sarah Cave, A. Thanki, Alain Hertzmann, Nira Yuval-Davis, John Yandell, Denny Fitzpatrick, Shelagh Weir, Mark Power, Caroline Austin, Nadia Bokhar, Sonia Hassan, Brian Wood, NC Faker Eldin, Moira Garland, Juliet Camp, J. Green, Lin Thatcher, Kevin Courtney, Runa MacKay, E.Unterhalter, Nabil Shawwa, Ann Khambatta, A.Aslam, Mags Lamplough, Saleha Motala, Assad Rehman, Carole Buxton, Donald & Sheila Miller, T.Khamis, Steve Ballard, Nanny Brett, H. Zangana, Daniel Guedalla, Liam Hutchings, Julian Eagles, Bill Hayton, C. Piggott, E.Aitken, J.Helou, Dr Al-Adhami; C.Roberts, F.Khouri, J.Beazleigh, L.Davis, P.Neave, A. Nelligan, Bill Bowring, A.Finkle, C.Knight. C.F. Sayrour,.L. Hashim, K. Blowe, J.M.Barbour, P.Hazell, P.Pantin, D.Gray, R.Campbell, John Hart, B. Deacon, J. Gilbert, S. Newens, N. Khasshab, B.Allan, Dr D. Glover, D. Waterman, C. Souza & R.Moir, D.Mukuma, Mark Thomas, Victoria Brittain Paul Foot, Paddy Hill (Birmingham Six), John O. Mairead Corrigan Maguire (Noble Prize Winner).

Sponsors abroad:
Dr Rosemary Sayigh, the co-ordinating forum of 16 NGOs working among the Palestinian community in Lebanon, Norwegian People's Aid Beirut (observer), Palestine Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights, LAW , Nasser Aruri, Arjan al-Fassed , Dr Zahi Damuni, Nancy Murray.

Groups and individuals who have expressed concern abroad Between February and March 1999, 2500 letters were sent from the West Bank and Gaza to the UK authorities. The campaign was led by the Palestinian Council for Human Rights organisations, and covered all the NGO network and universities. Letters signed by 50 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council were delivered to the British Consulate. Also 3 letters signed by 140 prominent Lebanese were sent to the same addressees. they included 3 ex-prime ministers, 23 MPs, 3 cabinet members, human rights activists, academics, journalists, artists, students etc.
On 17 February 2000, a petition of over 200,000 signatures from Palestine and Lebanon calling for disclosure of evidence was delivered to 10 Downing Street. Dr Haider Abdel-Shafi and Dr Eyad Sarraj flew over especially to deliver the petition.