Thread: ACLU seeks to clear 2 charities in Holy Land case

ACLU seeks to clear 2 charities in Holy Land case
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 06/18/2008 04:46:28 PM MDT


DALLAS—The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion in federal court Wednesday seeking to clear two groups named as unindicted coconspirators in a terrorism-financing case.
The Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust were among about 250 Muslim individuals and groups named by the government in its case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

The case against five former Holy Land officials accused of helping finance Hamas, which the U.S. government has designated as a terrorist group, ended in a mistrial last year. Another trial is set for September.

The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment on the suit Wednesday.

Naming the two groups as coconspirators gave government lawyers a way to introduce hearsay—or second-hand information not usually permitted—into evidence, the ACLU said.

Officials in both groups have said their fundraising dropped off markedly after their organizations were named as unindicted coconspirators.

The ACLU said the government conceded that it had no evidence the groups in Wednesday's filing had engaged in a criminal conspiracy. The ACLU is asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to declare the government's actions a violation of the Fifth Amendment right to due process.





http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_9626170

If the government had no evidence, it shouldn't have put them on the list.

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