Wednesday hearing will be Syeds final chance to prove he’s harmless in the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee and the first time the world has seen him post-SerialAdnan Syed’s mother stood in the middle of a room in the basement of the Dar Al Taqwa Islamic center near Baltimore.I haven’t seen her smile like this in a very long time,” said Kasif Ali, a lifelong friend of the Syed family. He said that when Yusef, and Adnan’s brother,let his mother Shamim Syed see all the Facebook posts from around the world, she was overwhelmed and stayed up half the night reading them. And now, and as the basement room fills up with television cameras and well-wishers wearing #FreeAdnan T-shirts who came to pray and mobilize before Syed’s hearing,Shamim Syed is both excited and nervous.
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Source: theguardian.com