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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Oops, yes sorry. When I see that name I see RED!!!
They are anti American in the extreme.
And yes, illegal immigrants do have the very same Rights, under the Bill of Rights, as American citizens.
No prosecution does not always translate into no crime or innocent.
The mayor's teenaged daughter in my town got the charges of DWI after midnight dropped by the city (at the very least she was out after curfew and drinking under age).
Bill Ayers saw charges dropped when it was determined that investigators had illegally obtained some of the evidence against him.
It's possible that some of the evidence presented could have compromised other investigations or surveillance.
Doesn't justify holding them without charge.
Mildred Gillars was in custody for 2 years before she was charged with treason for her broadcasts as a propagandist who'd been knicknamed "Axis Sally".
So you are saying that they have first amendment rights to hold public protests in this nation?
The next time an attack happens, the U.S. will settle with the muslims, only it won’t be the gubmit.
Yes.
“we do know that they were held eight months without charges”
As stated by their lawyers....maybe not necessarily the Gospel truth?
Too many pieces of this story missing to leap to that conclusion, IMO.
Militant
I see no public assembly rights for foreign invaders who insist that they are reclaiming ancient homeland.
We will have to agree to disagree.
So you take a bunch of fanatical hate-filled savages, fly occupied planes into occupied buildings, and then you get to cry victim.
They don’t have to ever fly planes into buildings again! They are making this country fit for Jihad with this country’s help.
So when do you think one will be on the presidential ballot so you can vote for them?
Yes, I’m sorry they did not choose to relocate
to their beloved Russia.
The Framers when writing the First Amendment, specified that “people” not only citizens have protections under the First.
If the Framers had only wanted for citizens to have First Amendment Rights, they would have used the word “citizens.”
Illegal visitors who snuck in are not under that coverage. Also we do not have to approve the travel visas of G8 summit rioters who come here to cause unrest.
Again, the Framers purposefully used the word people when penning and ratifying the First Amendment.
Once in the USA, all persons are protected by the Constitution.
So they have the right to bear arms too?
Not buying it.
And flush with the loot these peaceful practioners of The Religion of Peace will go out and create their own jihad network and punish the infidels and Zionists for their effrontery to The Religion of Peace.
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