Support Ahmed on February 22
What: Most critical and final date for entrapment victim Ahmed Ferhani
Where: 100 Centre Street, Manhattan, New York City, Part 51, 13 floor, Judge Obus
Time: 10am,
For more information: justiceforahmed.com
Please come support or cover the sentencing of Ahmed Ferhani, who will receive a ten-year prison sentence.
Ahmed Ferhani is
a 27-year-old Algerian-American who has lived in East Elmhurst, Queens
since he was a child. He is a hip-hop musician, jewelry designer, and
aspiring actor.
Ahmed was arrested in May of last year for his involvement in
an NYPD-orchestrated and funded entrapment scheme that was meant to make
it appear that Ahmed planned to attack a synagogue. Ahmed met an NYPD
agent who went by the name Ilter in late 2010. Ilter befriended Ahmed
and quickly gained his trust. Ilter pursued Ahmed, driving him to
doctor’s appointments, spending money on him, lending him money, and
calling him his brother.
Ahmed was a vulnerable target–he was broke, unemployed, depressed, and struggling with emotional imbalances. The NYPD was fully aware of Ahmed’s condition, and most likely chose him as a target because of it. Ahmed was tricked and coaxed into a scheme that was completely initiated, constructed, and performed by NYPD agents preying on one Muslim man who they knew to be impressionable and in need of help.
Federal terrorism authorities have declined to prosecute this case, and
the grand jury threw out the top charge against him, second degree
conspiracy as a terror crime.
Join
us in demanding justice for Ahmed, who got caught up in a
sting operation preying on his psychological and socioeconomic
vulnerabilities.
And please donate to the defense fund for the case at justiceforahmed.com
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