White House vigil for Lynne Stewart’s compassionate
release starts Monday, June 17
CONTINUING DAILY "UNTIL LYNN [STEWART] IS RELEASED OR DIES!"
The national campaign for Stewart’s Compassionate Release started more than three months ago, in early March. Thousands of petitions were sent and thousands of phone calls made urging her release. The warden at Carswell Federal Prison recommended her immediate compassionate release six weeks ago.
CALL: White House - President Barack Obama – 1-202-456-1414
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CONTINUING DAILY "UNTIL LYNN [STEWART] IS RELEASED OR DIES!"
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Media Contact: Ralph Poynter: 1-917-853-9759
The continuing campaign to gain Compassionate Release for
Lynne Stewart -- the grievously ill, imprisoned human rights attorney -- is
headed to Washington, D.C.
Despite
being approved for compassionate release, Stewart continues to be held in
Carswell Federal Prison in seriously deteriorating health.
Lynne Stewart’s spouse, the 79-year-old social justice
activist Ralph Poynter, will lead a continuing vigil in front of the White
House starting on Monday, June 17.
Poynter urges all those concerned with justice, compassion
and basic human rights to join him whether they are available for an hour, for
the day, or for the duration. He will be at the White House and making visits
to the Federal Bureau of Prisons several blocks away, at 320 First
St. NW, Washington D.C., 20534.
Lynne
Stewart, age 73, is suffering from stage 4 cancer in her lungs.
The cancer has metastasized rapidly to her lymph nodes and shoulder. She has
lost 60 pounds and her condition is deteriorating rapidly. Stewart’s condition
is well-known and medically documented.
As Poynter explains: “Lynne has
passed all of the legalities of compassionate release and qualifies
for release as the bill was written. The prison
warden at Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, has signed for her
release, and so has the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
Charles R. Samuels. Probation officers charged with inspecting Lynne’s
future residence approved her housing. All that is required by the statute of compassionate release has been done. Yet Lynne is still in jail! Every day that her release is
postponed makes treatment of her cancer more difficult.”
The national campaign for Stewart’s Compassionate Release started more than three months ago, in early March. Thousands of petitions were sent and thousands of phone calls made urging her release. The warden at Carswell Federal Prison recommended her immediate compassionate release six weeks ago.
As the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee has explained,
Stewart is not guilty of any crimes. In representing a prisoner charged with
terrorism, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Stewart was unjustly convicted of
delivering a simple press release for her client.
All those who are concerned with Lynne’s health and unable
to get to Washington, D.C., are urged to continue calling the White House,
Attorney General and Federal Bureau of Prisons and sending petitions.
CALL: White House - President Barack Obama – 1-202-456-1414
Attorney General Eric Holder - 1-202-514-2001
Sign petition at IACenter.org/LynneStewart or at
LynneStewart.org
UNLESS someone like you cares an awful whole lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not!
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