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9-11 Detainees' Illegal Detention Claims Dismissed, Prisoner Abuse Claims Remain

Loaded on Aug. 23, 2016 by Matthew Clarke

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, War on Terror, Terrorism, False Arrest, Racial Profiling. Location: United States of America.

In a 99-page, unpublished opinion dated June 14, 2006, New York federal district judge John Gleeson dismissed the illegal detention claims by eight ex-prisoners arrested in a post-9-11 sweep of illegal immigrants. He refused to dismiss their conditions-of-confinement claims.

The eight men had all been born in the Middle East ...

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9-11 Detainees' Illegal Detention Claims Dismissed, Prisoner Abuse Claims Remain

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