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Local item of interest. apparently they are force feeding this man who is
a suspect in the Sadat slaying.
Egyptian force fed after hunger strike
The Associated Press
9/22/00 5:32 PM
GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) -- Immigration officials used forced feeding Friday on an
Egyptian who has gone on lengthy hunger strikes during 3˝ years of
detention.
"I don't want to commit suicide or to hurt myself. I want freedom," Nabil
Ahmed Farag Soliman, 39, said Friday at the Etowah County Detention Center.
In a telephone interview, Soliman said he had a feeding tube in his nose and
also was being fed intravenously.
Immigration officials executed a force-feeding order on Soliman Thursday by
taking him to a Gadsden hospital, where the feeding began. He was then moved
to the jail, where the feedings continued.
The hunger strike was Soliman's third in 3˝ years in the custody of
immigration officials, who are trying to deport him as an illegal alien. In
the latest hunger strike, he spent six months consuming only liquids and
then stopped drinking them Aug. 4.
Egyptian authorities are seeking to question Soliman about possible
connections to the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat.
Soliman, however, has long contended his nation has him confused with a
fugitive, Nabil Ahmed Farag Rezk, who was convicted of the assassination in
absentia. Soliman claims he was an importer and exporter in Egypt and a
truck driver in the United States.
Soliman was fed in accordance with an Aug. 11 ruling by U.S. District Judge
C. Lynwood Smith Jr. However, Soliman's attorney, Eric Johnson of Columbia,
S.C., said he believes that ruling has been superseded by a ruling a week
ago by U.S. District Judge Dennis Shedd, who decided Soliman could continue
his hunger strike in accordance with his rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Soliman began his hunger strike in Gadsden, then was moved to a facility in
Columbia, S.C., for sick immigration detainees. He was moved back to Gadsden
on Tuesday. Medical personnel were concerned that because of Soliman's
history of peptic ulcers, he might run the risk of triggering a
life-threatening hemorrhage.
Soliman said Friday he is willing to be deported anywhere except Egypt
because he fears for his safety. He said he weighed 185 pounds when taken
into custody by the INS and now weighs 120.
Soliman said he originally entered the United States in 1991 and was allowed
to remain because he married an American. But that marriage ended after
three years, which changed his status.
In 1997, he was detained and ordered deported until an immigration judge
barred him from being removed from the country. The case is still being
appealed.
Representatives of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, based in
Washington, said Soliman's case is indicative of many cases they follow,
where detainees are held indefinitely.
"They just sit in limbo," said Carol Khawly, the committee's legal adviser.
Etowah County has a contract with the INS to house detainees.
Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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