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Feds Settle with Muslim Wrongfully Jailed as Potential Terror Witness

The federal government will pay $385,000 to a Muslim man who was held in jail for 16 days in 2003 as a potential witness in the trial of his University of Idaho classmate, who was accused of promoting terrorism. So reports New York’s Daily News.

The American Civil Liberties Union had filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Muslim man, Abdullah al-Kidd, to fight against the practice of imprisoning Muslim men without cause following the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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