This video tells the story of a young man I have been pan pals with for four years.
If I did not fully believe he is innocent, I would never never tell his story, let alone be in contact with him.
But he is innocent!
This is nothing more than an FBI witch hunt and a judicial system that is broken. The Patriot Act and NDAA have taken over and common sense has been lost.
In hundreds of hours of video and audio taped evidence, Ziyad was never on any of it. He had no weapons, no plans for any attack. The man who did have those things, Daniel Boyd, was given a light sentence in exchange for his testimony.
At trial, Boyd said under oath that Ziyad was no part of his group, was not in on any plot, had nothing to do with any of it.
Yet the jury, convinced by the prosecution that Ziyad could be a terrorist in some unknown future plan, convinced that because he is Muslim he must be a radical, convicted him with no evidence.
The judge sentenced Ziyad to over thirty years in prison.
Boyd, who did have a cache of weapons and a terror plan found in his home, got off with a much lighter sentence!.
What is wrong with this picture?? Plenty!
Update: August 1, 2023
Ziyad remains incarcerated at Otisville prison in New York state.
Despite having incompetent representation at his first trial, he has been repeatedly denied a new trial on numerous appeals.
This case continues to be an injustice to him, his family, and to every American who has been wrongly accused or incarcerated.
We chant the mantra "No one is above the law", but, no one should be crushed under it, either, especially the innocent caught in these periodic storms of paranoia and hate.
