Posted on 11/03/2009 12:44:38 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.
The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe beatings, incessant verbal abuse and a blackout on communications with their families and attorneys.
Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights who brought the case in Brooklyn federal court, said it was the largest settlement so far for claims of abuse in the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Justice Department agreed to settle the suit, which was filed in 2002 after hundreds of immigrants were rounded up and held for months following the attacks, according to the CCR.
A spokesman for the U.S. Justice Department was not immediately available to comment on the settlement, in which the U.S. government admits no liability or fault. The five men were all eventually released after being cleared of any connection to terrorism but then deported.
One of the men, Yasser Ebrahim, will receive the largest payout of $356,250 minus legal fees. "After seven long years, I am relieved to be able to rebuild my life," he said in a CCR statement.
"We were deprived of our rights and abused simply because of our religion and the color of our skin," he said. "I know that I and others are still affected by what happened and that communities in the U.S. continue to feel the fallout. I sincerely hope this will never happen again."
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We eat our own.
We give lavish gifts to our sworn enemies.
If you ever figure it out, clue me in, ok?
Only the lawyers make out.
Meerpol. Daughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Executed spies.
She must be granddaughter, I think they had two sons.
After 9/11, maybe they should’ve been turned loose in the Bronx, instead of being held. That probably would’ve solved the problem at much less cost.
Too bad she couldn’t join them..
Not a single reference to any of the specific charges that led their to imprisonment.
Al Reuters
Why deport them if they did nothing wrong and had no ties to enemies foreign or domestic?
“The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.”
“The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe beatings, incessant verbal abuse and a blackout on communications with their families and attorneys.”
If all that is true, the Feds violated these men’s Constitutional Rights.
And there is no excuse for denying these men their 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendment Rights.
We just let go of the next sleeper cell...
Why were they deported?
The tradition of treachery against America in the Rosenberg family is alive and well. What a vile witch.
Yeah sure, and we discriminated against the Nazis because of their German accents, right?
The story does not go into detail as to why they were deported, so I can only assume that they were deported due to a visa violation.
However, it seems that they had not committed any crimes and because of that were not prosecuted.
And yes, in this country even Muslims have Constitutional Rights.
“I am relieved to be able to rebuild my life”....
So I can come back and kill more of you....
“The men claimed they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe beatings, incessant verbal abuse and a blackout on communications with their families and attorneys.”
Bulls#1t!!
Militant
Muslims do indeed have constitutional rights.
Illegal immigrants do not have the right to run freely in this country.
And yes, Al Reuters left out much of the news in this peace.
Abuse is common in our prisons. Allegations of abuse are also common. Guards aren’t necessarily racist in their application of force, they equally abuse all prisoners’ rights. But that is not the gist of this story. It puts forth the notion that only muslim prisoners held without cause or suspicion were abused by evil Americans.
Al Reuters does a journalist diservice by not delving into why they were deported.
We do not know exactly how there were treated, but we do know that they were held eight months without charges, a clear violation of their Constitutional Rights.
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