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Amaral says this apology was coerced by threatsof her arrest...
Further, it is crucial to understand the context in which the trial took place. Because of Jamal's long involvement in the struggle for African-American liberation, the racist Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had compiled an 800-page file on him by the time of his arrest. It appears the government had an interest in silencing this eloquent spokesperson for justice, like it silenced so many other freedom fighters, including former Black Panther Geronimo Ji Jaga, whose wrongful murder conviction was recently overturned after he spent 25 years in jail because it became clear that he was framed...
...with a minor flood in a House dining hall, accompanied by a six-inch-wide photo of a sign informing students of flood. The kind of feedback we usually get from readers is criticism, which can be vocal, as it was in response to our coverage of the arrest of Joshua M. Elster '00. And there is the occasional sloppy story or inadvertent misquote, which is the only thing that some readers seem to remember...
...next day, Crimson reporters checked the Harvard University Police Department's (HUPD) public logs: no record of any activity. We called our regular contact in the police department. It was only at 5:15 p.m., more than 48 hours after the arrest, that HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara called to inform us that a student had been arrested on rape charges...
...think that the University actively tried to cover up the Elster arrest--far from it. Any violent crime at a safe institution like Harvard is difficult for administrators to handle, and rape is a particularly sensitive issue, for understandable reasons...