Deported Muslims return to sue US govt for abuse (Reuters)

[Up2Late]

("...one of four Muslim men who are being allowed to return to participate in the case under strict conditions including confinement to their hotel rooms..." WTF? Is this America or what?)

Deported Muslims return to sue US govt for abuse

Mon Jan 23, 2006 01:38 PM ET

By Claudia Parsons

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Muslim man detained for months without charge after September 11 and then deported to Egypt gave a deposition in New York on Monday in a suit against the U.S. government for unlawful imprisonment and abuse. Yasser Ebrahim was one of four Muslim men who are being allowed to return to participate in the case under strict conditions including confinement to their hotel rooms for the duration of their stay.

The men, who were cleared of any connection to terrorism, say they suffered inhumane and degrading treatment in a Brooklyn detention center, including solitary confinement, severe beatings, incessant verbal abuse and a total blackout on communications with their families and attorneys.

Ebrahim's attorneys said the men will be deposed over the next two weeks in a class action suit against the government over the treatment of more than 1,200 Muslim and South Asian men rounded up after the September 11 attacks blamed on al Qaeda.

The Center for Constitutional Rights -- a civil rights group handling the case -- said the conditions for their return to the United States include a ban on their speaking to anybody outside the case and confinement to their hotel room. Ebrahim's brother Hany Ibrahim was due to arrive in New York on Monday, CCR legal director Bill Goodman said, and the other two would arrive at some point in the next two weeks....

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[cantstandbush]

1. Confined to their hotel rooms? WTF? Is this really America? n/t

[Ezlivin]

2. Better hope it's not a Holiday Inn or they'll learn too much

On a less humorous note, the way this country is treating people is disgusting.

I can't believe people think this is a "Christian" nation. By what measure? The number of televangelists?

[Tight_rope]

3. I totally agree..."The history books will tell it all!"

[MountainLaurel]

4. Consider what today's history books leave out

I wouldn't count on it.

[54anickel]

5. Can't have them wandering the streets and talking to people, or heaven

forbid the press! They've been cleared of any terrorist connection - what other reason could there be for the confinement? I hope their confinement for the depositions makes it into the case as well.

Nice to see this guy has faith in the system - I sure as heck don't.

"I'm seeking justice," Ebrahim was quoted as saying by The New York Times. "It's from the same system that did us injustice before. But I have faith in this system. I know what happened before was a mistake."

[anitar1]

9. What press? n/t

[Zapatero]

6. There Will

probably shipped them off to Gitmo.

[HuffleClaw]

7. i'm surprised they even let the media talk to them

"a ban on their speaking to anybody outside the case" ?

ooops. does talking to the media count? this police state crap has got to stop. its surprising they were even allowed to show up at all. this is damned odd.

[HuffleClaw]

8. i'm surprised they even let the media talk to them

"a ban on their speaking to anybody outside the case" ?

ooops. does talking to the media count? this police state crap has got to stop. its surprising they were even allowed to show up at all. this is damned odd.