Yu Kikumura freed in Japan - 20 years in US Control Unit Prison

--- Political Prisoner News
<ppnews@freedomarchives.org> wrote:

Thursday, Oct. 25th 2007

i just got a call from Mo Nashida.
Mo let me know that he just received a call from
japan and Yu Kikumura was let out of jail this morning in Japan.
Yu is Free and back home!
i'll send more info when i get it.

Free All Political Prisoners!

lane farnham
LA-ABCF

From April 2007

Update to political prisoner supporters in the U.S.
on the eve of Yu Kikumura's release

After nearly 20 years in U.S. supermax prisons, Yu
Kikumura, political prisoner, Japanese anti-imperialist and
lifelong supporter of the liberation of Palestine, is scheduled to be
released from Federal Bureau of Prisons custody on Wednesday,
April 18th.  He is a Japanese citizen and therefore will be transferred
to Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Denver,
Colorado.  Yu has waived his right to a deportation hearing and anticipates
his deportation to Japan soon after April 18th.

Friends, family and supporters in Japan are
anxiously awaiting his return, however, his future in Japan is
unclear. There are indications that the Japanese government may
arrest him for any number of things that they are working hard to dig
up from decades ago as they, like the U.S., see him as a political
activist and an anti-imperialist.

It's important that we be prepared to intervene in
support of Yu as well as pressure the authorities in Japan in support
of his liberty and return to his community and family after 20
years of captivity.

For more information about Yu and his personal and
political history, check out
http://www.abcf.net/la/laabcf.asp?page=lapp-pow#

For more information about his release and how you
can support him in following his release from U.S. captivity, please
contact his friends and supporters in Japan at:  numazo@nifty.com
http://kyuen.ld.infoseek.co.jp/about/index_e.html


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