Help Manuel Tomas Lujan to enforce his legal rights.
In 1978, Manuel Tomas Lujan (Apache/Tarahumara/Mexican) was sentenced to death for deliberate murder and burglary. Tried again one year later, his penalty has been commuted to life sentence, without any possibility of parole before 25 years.
Since 1987, Manuel has been arbitrarily imprisoned in the Maximum Security Unit (MSU) of Florence State Prison in Arizona. Nothing can account for his being placed and kept in this high security area, where the incarceration conditions constantly violate the human rights.
According to the information delivered by his French support committee, Manuel is kept in confinement 165 hours a week. For his going out, a guard leads him to a kind of concrete cage covered with a grating roof where he goes round in circles, and then he can take a 8-minutes shower. He has never seen again the sun or the moon since hes been imprisoned.
In the U.S., a study about the MSU confirms that «the aim of these units is to destabilize the militant prisoners through a physical, psychological and spiritual collapse created by a too-long sensorial isolation».
Imprisoned since 27 years, Manuel is now legally eligible for a parole hearing, but, to get a possible appearance before the Commission, he must get out of the MSU.
This is why we, the undersigned, are asking for the re-classification of Manuel Tomas Lujan and for his immediate going back in the general population, so that he can enforce his legal rights according to his judgment.
