Monday, January 7, 2013
Community Church of Boston honors Tarek Mehanna with the 36th annual Sacco & Vanzetti Social Justice Award.
Tarek Mehanna, the Sudbury native convicted of terrorist charges in 2011, was honored Sunday by the Community Church of Boston and received the Sacco & Vanzetti Social Justice Award. According to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Mehanna once taught at Alhuda Academy in Worcester. The award is named for immigrants convicted of murder in 1920. Mehanna was convicted on Dec. 20, 2011, of four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authoritites. He was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison on April 12, 2012.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Sudbury terrorist will also have 7 years of supervised release.
Following a two-hour hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Boston, Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr., sentenced Tarek Mehanna, 29, the Sudbury resident found guilty on terror charges in December, to 210 months, to be followed by seven years of supervised release. In December 2011, Mehanna was convicted by a jury, after 10 hours of deliberation, of four terrorism-related charges and three charges related to providing false information to the government. The Boston Globe is reporting O’Toole was "frankly concerned by the defendant’s apparent absence of remorse, notwithstanding the jury’s verdict." Mehanna had faced life in prison for conspiring to help al Qaeda and traveling to Yemen in search of terrorism training in 2004. But O'Toole said …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Tarek Mehanna will be sentenced Thursday in Boston.
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to send convicted Sudbury terrorist Tarek Mehanna to prison for 25 years, according to the Boston Herald. Mehanna, who was convicted on terrorism charges in December, will be sentenced at Moakley Courthouse in Boston on Thursday. His defense is asking for a maximum sentence of 6 1/2 years. According to the Herald, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is also asking U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to keep Mehanna on supervised probation once he’s back on the street for as long as he chooses to remain in this country. Mehanna, 29, faces life in prison for conspiring to help al Qaeda and traveling to Yemen in search of terrorism training in 2004. According to FreeTarek.com, Mehanna plans to speak …
Monday, April 9, 2012
Sudbury native plans to speak.
Sudbury native Tarek Mehanna, who was convicted on terrorism charges in December, will be sentenced at Moakley Courthouse in Boston on Thursday. Mehanna, 29, faces life in prison for conspiring to help al Qaeda and traveling to Yemen in search of terrorism training in 2004. According to FreeTarek.com, Mehanna plans to speak during his sentencing. Since being arrested in 2009, he has been held at Plymouth County Correctional Facility. Mehanna will likely be moved to a federal facility after his sentencing. His defense is expected to argue in appeal that the jury was scared by repeated and irrelevant references to Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks. “It’s an incredibly sad day for us,” WBUR quoted defense attorney Janice Bassil in …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
What are your thoughts on Mehanna's conviction?
Sentencing for 29-year old Sudbury man Tarek Mehanna reportedly is scheduled for April 12 after a jury Tuesday found him guilty on terror-related charges. The Boston Globe says he faces possible life in prison. WCVB-TV says his defense is expected to argue in appeal that the jury was scared by repeated and irrelvant references to Osama bin Laden and the Sept. 11 attacks. “It’s an incredibly sad day for us,” WBUR quotes said defense attorney Janice Bassil as saying. “It should be a sad day for all of you. It is a sad day for civil rights. It’s a sad day for the First Amendment.” WCVB quotes Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz as saying, "The heart of the case is really this: Did Mr. Mehanna conspire to support terrorists, conspire to …
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The Boston Herald is reporting guilty verdicts on all counts against the Sudbury man.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The Boston Herald reports that Sudbury resident Tarek Mehanna has been found guilty on four terror-related charges, and three charges of lying to authorities. Officials contend that Mehanna and two friends conspired to take part in training at a terrorist camp in Yemen, while Mehanna said he was there to look at religious schools, the article said. Mehanna will be sentenced in April.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Supporters of Sudbury native plan to pack courtroom.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a press release submitted to Sudbury Patch.) Tarek Mehanna's defense team rested its case Wednesday and both sides plan to present closing arguments Friday. The trial of Mehanna has been ongoing since Oct. 24. The government took seven weeks to present their case while the defense used only one week. The defense intended to introduce testimony from nine experts, however two were refused by the judge. The seven experts who did testify included a professor from Yale, a Princeton PhD candidate, and a former CIA analyst and US-paid spy. “I expect that the jury will see Tarek's innocence, and even understand that he is a compassionate man,” said Tamer Mehanna, the Tarek's brother. Friday will be the closing …
Friday, December 2, 2011
Adds suspect was immature radical
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Government also claims Sudbury native would do it again.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Kareem Abu-zahra takes the stand for a third straight day.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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