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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">HLS Justice for Palestine presents: </SPAN><BR>
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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tuesday, February 7 at 5 PM in Wasserstein Hall, Rm 2012</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">at Harvard Law School for:</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">"Translation as Terror: Tarek Mehanna's Lawyers Speak About Defending</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">a National Security Case in Federal Court"</SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The trial of Tarek Mehanna in a Boston federal court this fall raised</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">new questions about freedom of speech in the post-9/11 era and sparked</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">intense interest nationwide.</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Charged with material support for terrorism in part for translating</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">public documents from Arabic to English, 29-year old Mehanna had a</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">dream team of Boston defense lawyers: JW Carney, Janice Bassil, John</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Oh and former OPIA attorney advisor Sejal Patel.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In their first public discussion of the trial since the guilty</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">verdict, the team will speak at HLS about the experience of handling a</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“terror” trial in federal court. This issue is of particular interest</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">to scholars of the Middle East because much of the prosecution's case</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">rested on the culpability of scholars who translated documents related</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">to terrorism into English. Mehanna's conviction has chilling</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">implications for those in fields related to the Middle East who rely</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">on translated documents for their research, as well as translators</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">themselves.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">More information on the event can be found here:</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A href="http://www.facebook.com/events/133783903406932/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.facebook.com/events/133783903406932/</FONT></A> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And more information about the trial can be found here:</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A href="http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/127536-united-states-v-tarek-mehanna/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/127536-united-states-v-tarek-mehanna/</FONT></A> </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoPlainText><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">or <A href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/18/terrorism-or-thought-crimes/" target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/18/terrorism-or-thought-crimes/</FONT></A> </SPAN></P>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN><STRONG>Co-sponsors: </STRONG>Middle East Law Students Association, Bernard Koteen Office for Public Interest Advising (OPIA), NLG, ACLU, Harvard Defenders, Advocates for Human Rights, HLS National Security Journal, National Security and Law Association, Alliance for Justice in the Middle East (AJME), Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee</SPAN><SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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