I want people to understand how corrupt our system is and how it is solely designed to keep the rich rich and the poor poor and how it has no conscious what so ever!
Its goal is money and to use people as scapegoats to fulfill their political goal.
My son, Ziyad Yaghi, was only a teenager when he and his friend Omar Hassan (originally from Egypt) and Ziyad originally from Palestine and Jordan went to visit the country of their origin!
All what they did was go sightseeing and visit family members and were looking for a future bride.
Nothing out of the ordinary took place overseas in Jordan and in Egypt and after two years and a half of my son and his friend coming back from overseas the FBI decided to arrest them!
On July 27th, 2009 our apartment complex was invaded by armed FBI agents and a SWAT team who arrested my twenty-one year old son from the pool!
They made it seem like they were arresting a "terrorist"!
This big hype for the media so who ever wants to get elected will claim that they arrested a "terrorist" to help keep our country "safe"
Safe from what?
When my son has not done one thing wrong or hurt as much as a hair on anyone's head!
He was refused a speedy trial based on there was "secret evidence" and remained in jail for over two years till his trial took place by a very biased jury who were not of my son's peer and fill asleep during the trial and most of them were older people, some who could barely walk!
The trial was very unfair and very unclear tape recordings of "The Ring leader" were played filled out by the prosecutors in a transcript given to the jury was used against my son who was not in any of these tape recordings!
Of course even though there was not any evidence against my son, and even though the "ring leader" when basically forced under duress to testify against my son, when cross examined said that he never conspired with my son, Ziyad Yaghi, to do anything!!!
Yet the jury convicted my son and the Judge gave him 31.5 years!
The judge also allowed biased material in court that had nothing to do with my son like video tapes of people beheading other people and so on which of course scared an ignorant jury!
This entire ordeal has caused us so much grief, depression and sadness.
Many days I wake up crying or go to sleep crying or have to leave my job because all of a sudden I burst out crying while I am at work and cannot stop!
I am constantly spaced out because I keep thinking about my son and the situation that he is in!
He is in (Special Housing Unit) which is even worse than solitary confinement!
Not only that, they fined us, because they wronged us, $8200 which will be taken out of the money that I send him for commissary!
The assistant manager at our apartment complex said that she never saw a more gentleman than my son!
My son who did not like me killing any insects in our apartment now is convicted of material support and conspiracy to kill and maim people!!!
We still don't know material support to whom since my son did not give any money to anyone and to kill who since he never even thought of hurting anyone!!!
Just because some people want to be promoted or get elected we have to suffer!
Our family has been shattered our lives interrupted from people with no conscious!
Muslims are being discriminated against, oppressed and denied any rights in America!!!
A country that I was born in took our rights from us and discriminated against us just because we are Muslims.
It is you who can us help when you speak out, when you stand by us the oppressed.
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" Desmond Tutu
Please help Ziyad!
I need ALL of you to do this.
If you have already done so, PLEASE take a few minutes to pass it along and urge others to do the same?
Share my story with your friends
If you know any great lawyer who will take my son's case (pro-bono) let me know
Sign the petitions and write letters to the people in charge. Come on, just think about it. What would you do if this was your own child?
Speak about the injustices and the discriminations that are going on against Muslim people and the unfair targeting of the FBI towards Muslim people
Don't vote for Presidents/Congressmen who encourage this type of discrimination or who stay quite while these kind of injustices are taking place under their reign
It's the little things we do that can make a difference.
Every society is judged by how it treats its least fortunate amongst them.
If you feel that you can just sit back and read about Ziyad and do nothing to repel this injustice and that it can never happen to you, think again.
If you don't like sending money through PayPal you can always send me a money order to my address.
In box me and I will give you my address or the lawyer's address and you can send him directly.
