Koji Ariyoshi

Released
Date of birth:1914
Date of death:23. 10. 1976
Gender:Male
Race:Asian
Era:1950s
State:Hawaii
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
Koji Ariyoshi

Biography

Koji Ariyoshi was the editor of the Honolulu Record, a progressive labor weekly, and a World War II veteran who had served with the U.S. mission to the Chinese Communists. He was one of the 'Hawaii Seven' arrested under the Smith Act in 1951; convicted in 1953, his conviction was reversed after Yates.

Case

Charges: Smith Act — conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government (newspaper editor; Hawaii Seven).
Arrested: August 1951
Sentenced: Jul 3, 1953
Incarcerated: Jul 4, 1953
Sentence: Five years; reversed on appeal.
Convicted: Yes

Related Cases

Jack Hall Jack Hall Charles Fujimoto Charles Fujimoto Dwight Freeman Dwight Freeman Eileen Fujimoto Eileen Fujimoto Jack Kimoto Jack Kimoto John Reinecke John Reinecke