Two Grand Jury Resisters Released; Maddy Pfeiffer Moved From Solitary Confinement

#WereFucked ‏@worthoftheworld

GOOD NEWS: Two grand jury resisters were released last night.
http://nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/two-grand-jury-resisters-released-maddy-pfeiffer-moved-from-solitary-confinement/
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Occupy Chicago ‏@OccupyChicago

#GrandJuryResisters Free at last! The fight is far from over. Keep applying pressure until Maddie is released as well http://nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/two-grand-jury-resisters-released-maddy-pfeiffer-moved-from-solitary-confinement/ …


Last night Matt Duran and Katherine “Kteeo” Olejnik were released from the Sea-Tac Federal Detention Center where they spent the last five months for refusing to testify before a Seattle grand jury investigating the anarchist movement . A third resister, Maddy Pfeiffer, remains in prison, but has been moved from solitary confinement to the general population.

Duran and Olejnik were greeted by friends and family as they left the detention center. Their lawyers, Kim Gordon and Jenn Kaplan, had filed motions arguing that their confinement was punitive. Under the law, imprisonment for civil contempt is not supposed to punish witness but coerce them into testifying.

Duran and Olejnik had been sent to prison in September after refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the anarchist movement. While ostensibly investigating vandalism that occurred during a May Day protest last year, the grand jury has been widely criticized for conducting a witch-hunt targeting people for their political ideas and affiliation. For the past five months, supporters across the country have been continually pressuring Judge Jones and District Attorney Jenny Durkan to release the grand jury resisters. Yesterday’s release was a victory for the resisters and all their supporters.

(More at the link!)