Free Hicham Yezza!

This post is not about health BUT is in support of a Reseacher at Nottingham University, called Hicham Yezza.

Hicham Yezza (nicknamed Hich) was arrested at his office at the University of Nottingham under the Terrorism Act 2000 on May 14, 2008, along with his friend Rizwaan Sabir, a postgraduate student researching terrorism in the university’s Politics and International Relations department.

His crime possession on his office computer an open-source, edited version of a document called ‘The Al-Qaeda Training Manual‘, which Rizwaan had downloaded from the U.S. Department of Justice website and passed on to Hich, who was helping him draft his PhD proposal.

According to Rizwan, he had forwarded the document to Hich - as he wanted to print the document ( 140 page) cheaply.

You can hear Rizwan's statement here




I am told that the alleged document is here.

Now, the same document or rather a more detailed version of the same document, is available to buy in book form on Amazon.co.uk

These unjustified arrests led to the biggest demonstration in the University of Nottingham's history - this can be viewed below.




This is a serious threat to Academic Freedom.

His friends and bloggers have taken up this with a zeal and have launched a site Support Hicham Yezza and press reports and others can be read here, here and, here


How can you help!

1. Donation
2. Join Facebook support Group
3. Sign an iPetition