Supporters of UCIrvine 11 protesting the suppression and silencing of voices for Palestine
by nora on Fri, 09/16/2011
http://electronicintifada.net/blog/nora/eager-closure-nearing-verdict-irvine-11-trial
The defense team for the Irvine 11 rested their case on Thursday afternoon at the Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, after nearly a dozen pieces of evidence ranging from emails to a video made by The Electronic Intifada were offered to the jury during the last two weeks of trial hearings.
The students from UC Irvine and UC Riverside, who nonviolently protested a speech given by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren in February 2010, are being charged by the Orange County District Attorney’s office with two misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to disrupt a meeting and disruption of a meeting. If convicted, each student could face up to a year in jail for each charge.
Several witnesses concluded their testimonies on Thursday, including a professor of sociology at UCLA who is an expert on audience behavior during speeches, and a former student at UC Irvine who witnessed an on-campus demonstration by college Republicans attempting to shut down a speech by a Muslim activist in 2001. Continue reading
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