juan: that was --furonda brasfield, your response?e? >> sure.his is just another in a long line of issues and problems with the drug that this state is planning to use for execution. we have passed secrecy law in the state of arkansas that cloaks all of this in secrecy. just this weekend, a claim from a drug manufacturing company has come in saying the state of arkansas has obtained our drugs in an unethical or and positively illegal -- possibly illegal way and they should not have them to use for executions. in one is just a another after another after another issues with these drugs and with the way arkansas is planning to try to carry these executions out. i think i heard in the heaearing the e state is trying to equate expiration dates with, oh, it is ok, we can use the drugs after expiration dates. they're just advisory day. i'm wondering how far our state will go to try to kill these men and what unethical means we will take to do that? you are backchols, to arkansas for the protests this weekend. >> i did. amy: were you notice going back

arkansas lawyer lee short, executive director of arkansas coalition to abolish the death penalty furonda brasfield, and former death row prisoner damien echols, go to democracynow.org. in egypt, a court has acquitted aya hijazi, her husband, and six other charity workers of all charges after they were imprisoned for more than three years without trial. hijazi, who grew up in v virgina and is a dual citizen of egypt, was arrested on may 2, 2014, along with her husband and others, while running a nonprofit seeking to help homeless children in cairo. she and her husband were accused of paying the children to participate in anti-government protests. to hear our interview about her with sharif abdel kudos, go to democracynow.org. as many as 1500 palestinian prisoners are now on hunger strike and eight separate israeli jails. israeli prison officials have moved to retaliate againinst strike leader marwan barghouti, moving him to anotr prprisonnd placacing him in solitary confinement. in a "new york times" op-ed published monday, barghouti wrotote -- "israel has established a dual legal regime, a form of