16 september - Mumia Abu-Jamal’s lead lawyer in London

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Christina Swarns (NAACP Legal Defence and Educational Fund), Mumia Abu-Jamal's lead lawyer, will be in London on 16th September for one day. She will speak about the latest developments in his case. Ms Swarns has been part of the Abu-Jamal legal team for some years. Her submissions on the issue of racism in jury selection were a crucial part of the appeal submitted in May 2007.

Ms Swarns visits just as a new book by Mumia (as he is known to millions) is launched in the UK.

Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v the USA speaks for the creative and determined movement of prisoners who use the law against the legal establishment. It is published just as prisoners in the US demonstrate their massive movement against prisons as concentration camps of repression, humiliation and other injustice, with work strikes, hunger strikes and other courageous actions, crossing racial divides.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist whose conviction in 1982 for killing a policeman aimed to end his years of exposing racism and other corruption. His trial was drenched in racism: while Philadelphia was 43% Black, only two jurors were African-American. Throughout almost three decades on death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal has continued to speak out against injustice and to organise for his freedom and for that of other prisoners. This is his sixth book.
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