Court documents: The ACLU's fight to free a former Hawthorne man
The ACLU of Southern California plans to sue U.S. officials today, claiming the government has a U.S. citizen, a former Hawthorne resident, detained and is violating a whole host of his rights by keeping him there without charges being filed. Here's the whole story.
A lot of the details for this report came from ACLU documents, which included sworn affidavits from Naji Hamdan's associates and family. In them, they also talk about the plight of Muslim Americans in the wake of 9/11, and how interrogation and surveillance have become a part of the norm. You can read them for yourself, here:
Hamdan Habeas.pdf <---- The complaint expected to be filed today.
Hamdan exh 3-7.pdf <---- The first set of exhibits.
Hamdan exh 13-19.pdf <---- The second set of exhibits, which contains a lot of background information on the United Arab Emirates and its foreign relations, human rights history and economics, as well as information about terrorism and 9/11.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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