Comments | ontd_political: 'Irvine 11' jury finds all 10 students guilty

arabgirl in ontd_political

'Irvine 11' jury finds all 10 students guilty

Sep 23, 2011 14:07

After more than two days of deliberation, an Orange County jury on Friday found 10 Muslim students guilty of two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt a February 2010 speech at UC Irvine last year by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

( There was crying as the verdict was read in Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson’s courtroom. The students showed no visible emotion, although they hugged each afterward. Some also stormed out. )

palestine, free speech, islam, israel, first amendment, arabs, islamophobia

Comments 14

sephystabbity September 24 2011, 03:21:14 UTC

This is a ridiculous sentence. Land of the free, my ass.

musique_style September 24 2011, 03:52:47 UTC

Ugh! What bullshit!

I wonder if the fact that the trial was held on September 11th had anything to do at all, considering the fact that most Americans feel more patriotic and thus, anti-Moosliym on that particular day. :|

mrasaki September 24 2011, 06:01:39 UTC

God, this was my undergrad university, class of '05. FUCK. I'd heard of the arrests but didn't -- wouldn't -- believe that it would go so far.

I'm confused though -- was it the county who arrested and charged these students, or was it done through the university? if it was the uni, then I am seriously, SERIOUSLY unhappy with my alma mater.