In late July of 2018 Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan was cut off from phone and email access and had most of his property confiscated and his cell locked down in a clear move to silence his advocacy for prisoners leading up to the nationwide prison strike. Hasan is an IWOC member who has been held in solitary confinement on death row since 1993 on false charges deriving from the Lucasville Uprising.  

Hasan has been an effective organizer, frequent hunger striker, and was a key spokesperson leading up to the September 9, 2016 nationally coordinated prisoner strike and protest. In 2018 he was prevented from taking such a role by this pre-emptive restriction on his communication access. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) put Hasan before a serious misconduct panel (SMP) on August 14th, 2018, where he was, as expected railroaded and charged with five rules violations and sentenced to a communication restriction of indefinite, but likely extensive length. Hasan considers this an infringement on his free speech and is appealing the decision.  

Immediately upon restriction Imam Hasan started a hunger strike, and supporters a phone zap call in campaign to support him. Hasan's situation will come up for review every 3 months, we're hoping to influence the process to restore his communication access either by overturning the SMP decision or seeing a favorable decision at one of these reviews.