19 March, 2009

Imam asking for bail hearing

Imam asking for bail hearing

By LINDSAY WISE
Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
March 17, 2009, 10:11PM

Bouchikhi, the popular spiritual leader of a southeast Houston mosque, has been held without bail at the facility since Dec. 17. In an interview this week, the 39-year-old imam of Houston’s Abu Bakr Siddqui mosque said he planned to start a hunger strike today to protest the government’s refusal to release him on bail while he awaits a deportation hearing.
Then starve.

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