US citizen fights to sue FBI agents for ‘inhuman’ detention abroad
by Jenifer Fenton
A U.S. citizen’s six-year fight to hold FBI operatives accountable for his detainment and torture in East Africa is again at risk of being quashed by the government, in a move that risks denying judicial remedy for those mistreated by U.S. officials abroad.
Amir Meshal, a 32-year-old man born in New Jersey to parents of Egyptian descent, remains “deeply traumatized” from being held in “stark and inhuman conditions without charges or legal basis” by U.S. officials, his lawyers say.
While detained, Meshal was threatened by FBI agents with mental and physical abuse and told that he would be made to “disappear,” their lawsuit alleges.
Judges have described his case as troubling and the allegations against the U.S. government as embarrassing. But attempts to hold any U.S. parties accountable have repeatedly been denied.
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