ZGram - 11/16/2004 - "Important Zundel hearing set for Thursday"

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November 16, 2004

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IMPORTANT ZUNDEL HEARING SET FOR THURSDAY
News Release -- November 16, 2004
Contact: Mark Weber. weber at ihr.org. Tel. 949 - 631 1490


An important hearing in the legal fight by Ernst Zundel to revoke his
February 2003 deportation from the United States is set for Thursday
morning.

The "application for habeas corpus" hearing is scheduled for Thursday,
November 18, at 10 a.m., in Eastern Tennessee District Court, 800 Market
Street, Room 4, Knoxville. It is open to the public.

Zundel, 65, is a German-born graphic artist, publisher, historical
revisionist, and civil rights activist. In August 2000 he moved from
Canada, where he had lived for 42 years, to Sevierville County,
Tennessee, to make a new home with his wife, Dr. Ingrid Rimland, a US
citizen. Seeking to live permanently in the US, the INS had accepted his
"application for adjustment of status."

On Feb. 5, 2003, INS officials, accompanied by local law enforcement
officers, seized Zundel without warning or arrest warrant at the
couple's eastern Tennessee home. Two weeks later he was deported to
Canada, allegedly for having "overstayed his visa" and having "missed a
hearing." 

In August the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati overturned an
earlier court decision and ruled that Zundel is entitled to a "habeas
corpus" hearing on his deportation.

For more than a year and a half Zundel has been held in solitary confinement
at the Metropolitan West Detention Center in Rexdale, near Toronto. His
ordeal has attracted international media attention. Demonstrations
demanding freedom for this "political prisoner" and "prisoner of
conscience" have been held across Canada and in Los Angeles and Seattle.

At the hearing on Thursday, Zundel's attorney is expected to submit in
evidence a recently videotaped deposition in which Zundel reviews the
facts of his case and refutes US government accusations.

His former immigration attorney, Rehim Babaoglu of Memphis, is also set
to testify. He is expected to explain that at the time of his arrest
Zundel was carefully complying with all relevant regulations and
procedures, and that US government claims that Zundel "missed a hearing"
and "overstayed his visa" are demonstrably false.

The United States Attorney is now claiming that the Knoxville Court has
no jurisdiction to hear the case because Zundel entered under a
specialized "visa waiver" program giving authority to the INS to seize
and deport him without hearing. In fact, the government's visa waiver
authority had lapsed at the time he entered the USA.

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For more about the Zundel case, see the Zundelsite
(http://www.zundelsite.org/index.html), and the IHR website 
(http://www.ihr.org/index.html).
See also: "Who is Ernst Zundel and Why Is He in Jail?"
(http://www.ihr.org/news/030923Zundel.shtml), and
"Some Good News in the Zundel Case"
(http://www.ihr.org/news/040326zundel.shtml)

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