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Free Fred Hampton Jr.!

On May 19, 1993, 25-year-old Fred Hampton Jr., son of slain Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on the bogus charge of "aggravated arson." Fred Jr. was the local Chairman of the National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement in Chicago and, like his father a generation before him, was highly effective in bringing the African youth of Chicago into the political struggle to end what is literally a counterinsurgency war against the African community.

In early May of 1992, following the heated aftermath of the Simi Valley verdict which acquitted the white Los Angeles policemen who brutally beat Rodney King, Fred Jr. was arrested in front of his mother's home as he was playing with his young daughter. The police handcuffed him and took him away, leaving his little girl alone and in tears on the sidewalk. Fred's bail was set originally at a million dollars and was later only reduced to $400,000.

Since that time, Fred Hampton Jr. has been moved from prison to prison throughout the State of Illinois. Wherever he is sent, he has organized other prisons into political life -- building the Uhuru Movement from inside the concentration camp walls. All people concerned with justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States should check this page out.

 


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