the following quote from Mahatma Gandi besides his picture:
"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need."
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SENTENCING DAY(11/01/2012): READ REZWAN'S STAEMENT IN THE COURT HERE- Judge Richard Stearns seemed to have been moved by Rezwan's statement and told Rezwan, "you don't need any lecture from me. Your statement convinces me that you have the character and the capacity to search your own soul." Judge Stearns said, "I'm going to leave it to you to finish that journey." STANDING UP FOR REZWAN (11/01/2012) |
Lawfare Podcast #24: Federal Public Defender Miriam Conrad on the Rezwan Ferdaus Case |
Are you kidding? (05/18/2013)
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BREAKING NEWS(05/01/2013): REZWAN'S FAMILY VISITED REZWAN IN USP MARION, IL
BREAKING NEWS(02/10/2013): REZWAN IN FINAL DESTINATION
BREAKING NEWS(02/05/2013): REZWAN IN TRANSIT
BREAKING NEWS(01/25/2013): REZWAN IN TRANSIT
BREAKING NEWS(01/18/2013): REZWAN IN TRANSIT
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NEWS MEDIA REPORTING AFTER SENTENCING DAY ON NOVEMBER 01, 2012: |
REZWAN'S SENTENCING DATE NOVEMBER 01, 2012
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REZWAN: OUR SUPPORT AND LOVE FOR YOU IS UNWAIVERING; ON THIS UNJUST FIRST ANNIVERSARY, WHEN YOUR "FREEDOM, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND JUSTICE" WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU (09/28/12)We can not even imagine the hardship you are facing under the condition of Solitary Confinement. We are proud of you for showing courage, tolerance, and patience against all odds. We say "Thank You God".We pray to God that he always gives you courage, tolerance, patience, and good health, so that you can face whatever injustice is thrown at you. - Family and Friends |
HAPPY 27TH BIRTHDAY REZWAN (09/19/12)May Allah grant you long healthy life and keep you safe. Remember, justice will always prevail. We love you very much.- Family and Friends |
EID MUBAROK (GREETINGS) FROM REZWAN (08/19/12)On this happy day of 'Eid-Al-Fitr' celebration by Muslims all over the world, Rezwan sends his Eid Mubarok (greetings) to everybody. He expressed his heartfelt gratitude to all his family and friends for the love and support provided to him.Rezwan conveyed this message through his parents who went to visit him on the last day of the holy month of Ramadan. Rezwan was able to fulfill his obligation of Ramadan by fasting (sunrise to sunset) all 30 days while in Solitary Confinement. |
BREAKING NEWS (07/20/12)
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| Rezwan Ferdaus was under Psychiatric care at the time of his arrest. His mental illness
was obviously visible to his family and friends since late 2009. The FBI knew about his mental issues at least since
October 21st of 2010, when they came to his house to ask questions about another person who went to a gun shop, and
still went ahead with targeting him knowing that he is an easy prey.
FBI sent 'gangster' and 'heroin addict' informant, whom they called Collaborating Witness (CW), to the Worcester Islamic Center (WIC) Mosque to entrap Rezwan. The informant, a non-Muslim, hanged out in the mosque pretending to be a Muslim, and identified himself as Khalil from Connecticut of Egyptian descent. The informant's record as established in court and reported by the Boston News Station WBUR on November 8th, 2011, is: "two convictions for selling drugs, unlawful restraint, a robbery conviction whose eight-year sentence he cut down to three by cooperating as a government witness elsewhere." Every Friday since middle of 2008, Rezwan went to WIC Mosque along with his father for Friday 'Jummah' Prayer and this is where at the end of 2010, the FBI orchestrated and facilitated a plan to entrap Rezwan. |
Boston Radio 90.9 WBUR (07/24/12) |
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After the bail hearing on November 4, 2011, Associated Press Reported: A lawyer for a man accused of plotting to fly explosives-packed remote-controlled planes into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol suggested Friday that the FBI ignored signs of mental illness while investigating him. During cross-examination by Ferdaus' lawyer, Miriam Conrad, Davis (FBI Special Agent Bradley Davis) acknowledged that Ferdaus told the undercover employees he was anxious and depressed and was having "intrusive thoughts" in the month before his arrest. He also acknowledged that the FBI had received during the investigation reports about bizarre behavior by Ferdaus, including a report to Hopkinton police in February that he was standing in the road not moving and appeared to have wet his pants.Conrad asked Davis whether those reports "gave the FBI concern about the mental health of the target." "It's a consideration, but it's not a concern," Davis said. "Our concern was for public safety." Davis added, "Even individuals with mental health issues are a danger and a threat to the public." Conrad also challenged the credibility of the informant who first talked to Ferdaus. Davis acknowledged that the informant had a criminal record and "substance abuse issues." Conrad said the man was a heroin addict who had been arrested twice while working as an informant for the FBI. |
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FBI Informant Under Fire For Past Convictions reported by WBUR on November 8, 2011: The informant was known as Khalil, and the guy who signed him up was FBI agent John Woudenberg. With the scalpel of a surgeon, Conrad established the informant’s record: two convictions for selling drugs, unlawful restraint, a robbery conviction whose eight-year sentence he cut down to three by cooperating as a government witness elsewhere. And, of course, his history of what the agent referred to as Khalil’s “difficulties” with heroin. “When I signed him up, I believed him to be clean,” Woudenberg said. “You didn’t ask him about his past history?” “No,” he replied. Under further questioning, the agent acknowledged that Khalil had purchased heroin while on FBI video, though the agents missed it. “Did you terminate him?” “At that time we helped him get into a program,” Woudenberg said. The program lasted a week. Did you terminate him, came the question again. “We didn’t use him for quite a few weeks.” Under FBI guidelines, Conrad pointed out, if you become aware an informant is committing crimes you have to report him. As it was, when Khalil was terminated in June 2010, he was not terminated for causes the agent acknowledged. That allowed the FBI to bring Khalil back as an informant, once again, at the end of 2010 to go after Ferdaus. Here’s the earlier exchange between Conrad and Woudenberg: “What steps did you take to ensure he wasn’t using heroin?” “He was much scrutinized. He was under the microscope.” “Did you give him a drug test?” “No.” This was the first person the FBI sent out on the secret mission. From the agent who signed the informant up, the defense attorney extracted the following: On one wire, Khalil is heard to say that he’s dope sick and needs a gram; he shoplifts while wearing the wire. He got got paid $10,000 by the FBI for his work with Ferdaus, $40,000 more for his informant work elsewhere. And in April, when the FBI rented a room for Khalil and his girlfriend and she was blamed for trashing it, the FBI paid those damages, too. But Woudenberg said he never gave his informant a drug test. “We thought of it,” he told the defense attorney, “but bureau policy didn’t allow for it. So we didn’t do it. There was no funding for that sort of thing.” So, Conrad said in closing, “You found it harder to get a drug testing kit than getting C4 explosives?” “Objection,” snapped the prosecutor. “Sustained,” snapped the judge magistrate, who told Conrad, “you’re way out of line.” But Conrad’s aim was straight, even if it was in the second ring of the detention hearing. |
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