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April 8, 2013

Daniel McGowan Released After Arrest Under Outlawed Statute 
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The environmental activist Daniel Mc Gowan was released from prison
Friday afternoon after federal authorities were notified they had
arrested him under a regulation declared unconstitutional. Mc Gowan had
been taken into custody Thursday just months after his release to a
halfway house following over five years in prison for his role in two
acts of arson as a member of the Earth Liberation Front. In his case,
the judge ruled he had committed an act of terrorism, even though no one
was hurt in either of the actions. Mc Gowan was told he had violated a
Bureau of Prisons rule for publishing an article decrying his treatment
for The Huffington Post. Mc Gowan's attorneys say they won his release
after pointing out that the regulation in question had been declared
illegal in 2007 and eliminated in 2010.

 

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