U.S. Agrees to Settle 9/11 Detainee Lawsuit
The settlement is the first the government has made in a number of lawsuits charging that non-citizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated in detentions after the terror attacks.
NEW YORK - The U.S. government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian who was among dozens of Muslim men swept up in the New York area after Sept. 11, held for months in a detention center in Brooklyn, and deported after being cleared of links to terrorism.
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"This is a substantial settlement and shows for the first time that the government can be held accountable for the abuses that have occurred in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay and in prisons right here in the United States," said one of the lawyers, Alexander Reinert.
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