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October 4, 2012

Wrongfully-Detained Muslim-American Wins Right to Trial 
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A Muslim-American man who was wrongfully detained after the 9/11 attacks
has won the right to be tried. Abdullah al-Kidd was jailed for 15 nights
under the federal material witness statute before being released. During
his ordeal he was repeatedly strip searched and left naked in his cell.
A federal appeals court later ruled then-Attorney General John Ashcroft
circumvented the Constitution after the 9/11 attacks to hold al-Kidd and
other innocent men without charge. On Friday, a federal judge ruled
al-Kidd was wrongly imprisoned and is entitled to challenge the
government's misuse of the law in court.

 

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