Biography
John Bowman was a former Black Panther whom the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement submission identifies alongside Hank Jones and Ray Boudreaux as detained in August 2005 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating a 1971 San Francisco police killing. The submission describes indefinite contempt detention and alleges torture during the earlier 1973 investigation. It does not establish an exact admission day, a discharge date, a criminal conviction in the reopened investigation or a complete duration. The 2005 detention is separate from the historical investigation. Source: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/media/publications/10.%20Political%20Prisoners%20in%20the%20United%20States%2C%20ICCPR%20Coalition%20Report.pdf#page=10
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Richard Brown, who was detained in the same contempt proceeding, names Bowman among the five jailed and dates their actual release to October 31, 2005, when the grand jury expired. A contemporary support statement independently records that date. Bowman’s exact admission day remains unresolved.
