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Mumia greets visitors Johanna Fernandez and Heidi Boghosian with a hug |
by Dave Lindorff
Something very small and yet enormous happened this past week.
On Feb. 2, two women who have been fighting for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, filmmaker/professor Johanna Fernandez and National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian, visited Abu-Jamal, as each has done in the past, but this time, because he has been moved off of death row, for the first time since 1995, he was able to greet them with a hug--free of the leg shackles and handcuffs gratuitously attached to him during his visit sessions on death row at SCI Greene prison.
For the first time too, since 1995, there is a photo to record that seemingly mundane and deceptively ordinary-looking event.
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