The information on this webpage was compiled by the CCADP without the previous knowledge or consent of the prisoner.  The CCADP is refusing to remove any Arizona prisoner materials from the internet until the law banning prisoners from the internet has been challenged and defeated, to ensure ALL Arizona death row prisoners are allowed to have their voices heard... Prisoners contacting the CCADP for removal under threats from the DOC receive a copy of the following: CLICK HERE
     
   Michael Apelt 
        One of Two German brothers on Arizona's Death Row
     
Under, the Vienna Convention on Consular Rights, the U.S. government has the obligation of informing any foreign citizen arrested on U.S. soil of their consular rights, but often violates the convention. 
The arresting Arizona authorities violated US obligations under international law in their failure 
to comply with the notification provisions of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
  Vienna Convention on Consular Relations adopted by the U.N.
International Court of Justice Condemns the U.S. For past Vienna Convention violations in Arizona
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has its seat in The Hague, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
  LAGRAND CASE  (GERMANY v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)
" The Court finds that the United States has breached its obligations to Germany and to the LaGrand brothers under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations The Court finds, for the first time in its history, that orders indicating provisional measures are legally binding." -  Judgment of June 27, 2001 Regarding the Execution of the LaGrand Brothers in Arizona
        Foreign national/mental retardation issues in Apelt case
          "The German-born man (Rudi) didn't speak until he was 7 or 8, and attended school for the mentally retarded."

                     Michael Apelt
                                                
                                                    - This text has been arranged together with my lawyer -

Hi, my name is Michael Apelt, I am 36 years old and a German citizen. I am innocent and sentenced to death together with my brother Rudi. We are on Arizona's death row for 10 years now and have been fighting to find some kind of justice which makes it even harder for us as we are innocent of charge!

I am placing this page to reach out for someone like you, who may find in her/his heart and soul the love, kindness, understanding and compassion for my desperate situation on death row.

I am looking for an open and sincere friendship which can eventually help me
in my loneliness and desperate need of support because to be quiet frankly:
I cannot provide for myself the basic needs of everdays life !

Furthermore, I urgently need financial aid for my complex death penalty case in order to save my life and not to be barbarously executed, as I am innocent.
So if you think, that you are the person with the love, kindness, understanding,
compassion and willingness to help and support the good cause that an innocent person will not be put to death again which happens so frequently, please write me!

Please address your sincere letter directly to the following address below,
I will reply to all letters. Thank you in advance for your big heart and human compassion. The address is:

                       Michael Apelt # 80735
                  Arizona State Prison - Eyman
                             P.O. Box 3400
                          Florence, Arizona,
                               85232   USA

The above information was taken from:  http://www.gbr.ecadp.org/inmates/sites/apelt_m.html
The CCADP re-posted this material after the original website was deleted at the request of Michael Apelt fearing the ADOC.
           More information in German on the case of Michael and Rudi Apelt:
Michael und Rudi Apelt, Arizona

                                     Photo of Michael Apelt
                                                    
 
 
 
      Rudi Apelt's CCADP Page     Michael Apelt's CCADP Page
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This page was last updated September 8, 2002         Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
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