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• - Videotape and text of Arnold Beverly's confession that he killed Officer Daniel Faulkner as part of a mob hit assisted by Philadelphia police. PDF text of Federal District Judge William Yohn's ruling that the confession was inadmissable due to the statute
  
• - Complaint about the unauthorized use of PVN's Mumia Abu-Jamal interview, demonstration, and documentary footage in the December 9, 1998 edition of 20/20.
  
• - Political advocacy page alleging that a Black journalist with a long history of criticizing the local justice system did not get a fair trial on charges of murdering a police officer.
  
• - Affidavits with testimony from nine persons who did not testify at the original trial, including Mumia and his brother William Cook asserting innocence and Arnold Beverly confessing to the killing. Court briefs and rulings related to them.
  
• - Background and news on the case, reports on Anarchist groups at demonstrations, and contact list of organizations supporting the effort to free him.
  
• - Editorial by Terry Bisson about the political climate in Philadelphia, Mumia's background, and the demand for a new trial.
  
• - Discusses why the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal has gotten little black community support. [Salon News]
  
• - Taped speech by convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal brings crowds of protesters and supporters to the campus.
  
• - Federal court order requiring new sentencing hearing, citing constitutional defects in the instructions given to the jury that sentenced Mumia to death. (PDF file, 657K)
  
• - Includes news and photographs of local demonstrations, updates on the case, and a list of ten things activists can do to protest.
  
• - A federal judge in Philadelphia has thrown out the death sentence against former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal.
  
• - Includes the text of the January 2000 court filing alleging police coercion of witnesses, and another one with descriptions of evidence alleged to have been suppressed at the trial. Includes links to both pro-execution and pro-retrial sites.
  
• - Concerned students from across the country working to educate people about political prisoners in the United States.
  
• - Philadelphia Inquirer articles about the Mumia Abu-Jamal case, dating back to 1981.
  
• - A wealth of resources on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, including some very useful resources for activists interested in raising awareness of this cause.
  
• - Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner on death row who was framed for the murder of a police officer in 1982.
  
• - Contains accusations of irregularities in the trial, plans for protests at Federal court hearings, and a selection of documents.
  
• - The surprising revelation that one of his attorneys was publishing a book on the case led to dismissal on grounds of conflict of interest. One of a series of articles from Young Socialist Action.
  
• - A guide to some of the conflicting information and opinions available on the Net.