In 2001, NYC Muslim men were swept up in Post 9/11 raids, detained in abusive conditions and denied due process. For almost 6 Months, activists rallied each week in front of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC).

Now in 2012, over 50,000 men and women languish in solitary confinement across the United States. Join us to remember and revitalize the struggle.

Where are the former MDC detainees now? How are they and their families? Who is held in MDC now and have the conditions improved? Is the abusive use of long term solitary confinement increasing? Come discuss these issues and more; featuring CCR Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol.

Tenth Anniversary Re-Connection Press Conference
1:00 pm
Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC)
Third Avenue and 29th Street, Brooklyn

Film Showing, Discussion and Reception
2:00 pm (immediately after press event)
Freddy’s Backroom
Fifth Avenue and 17th Street, Brooklyn

Co-Sponsored by: Brooklyn for Peace; Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR);  Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM); Ethical Culture; American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Metro NY Religious Campaign Against Torture (MNYRCAT); Rabbis for Human Rights – North America R (RHA-NA) ; Witness Against Torture; Weaving the Fabric of Diversity Committee at First Unitarian Congregational Society Brooklyn; Mr. Norman Seigel; Sr. Debbie Almont Aser; Emira Habiby Browne.

For more information call (646) 251 0402.