15.10.2013 - 23:51 [ Green is the New Red ]

New York Anarchist Has Been Imprisoned Nearly Five Months, Not Charged With Any Crime

Jerry Koch has been imprisoned in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center for nearly five months. He isn’t accused of any crime. He was subpoenaed to a federal grand jury, where he refused to answer questions about his anarchist political beliefs and his community. I previously wrote about Koch’s case for Vice, and Anna Simonton has recently published an excellent article about the use of grand juries to target political dissidents on Alternet.