Secrecy, Guilt by Association, and the Terrorist Profile
In March 1998, Hany Kiareldeen, a 30-year old Palestinian immigrant living in New Jersey, was arrested by United States immigration authorities and imprisoned. Government officials told him that his presence in the United States threatened national security. When Kiareldeen asked why, he was told th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2001, Volume: 15, Pages: 267-288 |
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| Summary: | In March 1998, Hany Kiareldeen, a 30-year old Palestinian immigrant living in New Jersey, was arrested by United States immigration authorities and imprisoned. Government officials told him that his presence in the United States threatened national security. When Kiareldeen asked why, he was told that the evidence that supported the charge was secret, and could not be revealed to him because its disclosure would imperil national security. Kiareldeen spent 19 months in prison without seeing the evidence that placed him there, until a federal judge ruled in October 1999 that his detention was unconstitutional and ordered his release. The government's principal source appears to have been Kiareldeen's ex-wife, with whom he was in a custody dispute over their child. He offered unrebutted testimony that she had made numerous false allegations against him in the course of the dispute, all of which had been dismissed by local officials. But one allegation, that he was associated with terrorists, was passed on to the FBI, and that allegation landed him in jail on secret evidence for over 19 months. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051520 |