Free Imam Jamil

  • New York
  • December 2001

Clip from December 20, 2001 episode of news show, Like It Is, with Karima Al-Amin, Esq., Kathleen Cleaver, and Jamil Al-Amin. 3 min.

Notes: Before becoming Muslim, Imam Jamil Al-Amin was known as H. Rap Brown, a celebrated leader of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and a target of the US government. In the full episode, his wife, Karima Al-Amin, Esq., provides more detail about the conditions surrounding Imam Jamil's arrest and conviction in 2002, the efforts to free him, and his spirit while in a supermax prison. Over the last twenty years, Imam Jamil has been a captive in state and federal prisons, primarily in 23-hour solitary confinement. He is currently 77 years old and in deteriorating health at a federal prison in Tuzon, Arizona. Efforts continue to Free Imam Jamil!