User:Geo Swan/Amir Mohamed Meshal
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Amir Mohamed Meshal | |
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.jpg) American citizen Amir Mohamed Meshal, in a photo taken by a US consular official, in 2007 | |
| Born | 1983 (age 40–41) |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | kidnapped by security officials in Kenya, in 2007, with the colloboration of US intelligence |
Amir Mohamed Meshal is an American citizen who claims he was held in extrajudicial detention in Kenya, in a camp partially run by American security officials, in 2007.[1][2][3]
African trip
[edit]Meshal says he travelled to Somalia, in 2006, to study the Koran.[4][5] In early 2007 a military force largely consisting of soldiers from neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia, invaded Somalia, with US backing. Meshal says that, like thousands of foreigners and other refugees he fled the warzone for Kenya, where he was promptly imprisoned.
Capture and extrajudicial detention
[edit]After fleeing Somalia, for Kenya, Meshal was visited by US officials.[4][5] He was then flown to Ethiopia with dozens of other captives, who had never been charged with a crime, in Kenya.[6]
Pursuit of accountability
[edit]When he took his case to an appeals court, in 2015, it confirmed that American security officials could not be held to account for the illegal detention of US citizens, overseas, when they claimed a national security justification.[2][3]
Rough work
[edit]References
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Raymond Bonner (2007-03-23). "New Jersey Man Who Fled Somalia Ends Up in an Ethiopian Jail". The New York Times. London. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
'What we have learned so far about the plight of Mr. Meshal raises grave questions about the United States' involvement in the illegal rendition and possible torture of an American citizen,' said Jonathan Hafetz, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, who is representing the family. 'It is simply implausible that an American citizen was secretly rendered from Kenya to Somalia without the United States' knowledge and approval.'
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Patrick G. Eddington (2015-11-03). "How the F.B.I. Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk". The New York Times. p. A31. Archived from the original on 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
Eight years after Mr. Meshal's rendition, his case ended up before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Sam Hananel (2015-10-23). "Appeals court says American can't sue FBI over abuse claims". Boston Globe. Washington DC. Archived from the original on 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
The lawsuit, which the American Civil Liberties Union filed on Meshal's behalf, says US officials sent him back to Somalia and eventually to Ethiopia, where he was imprisoned in secret for several months. He says FBI agents accused him of receiving training from Al Qaeda and subjected him to harsh interrogations while denying him access to a lawyer, his family, or anyone else. He was released in May 2007 with no explanation, according to the lawsuit.
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Conor Friedersdorf (2011-07-19). "Give Amir Mohamed Meshal His Day in Court". Atlantic magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
Amir Mohamed Meshal is seeking redress for what he says were violations of his constitutional rights. The 28-year-old man, an American citizen residing in Tinton Falls, N.J., alleges that he was held against his will in an African prison for four months, where U.S. officials threatened him with torture and forced disappearance. He has filed suit against two FBI agents and a dozen unnamed federal employees.
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"Judge skeptical of Obama administration arguments in suit by US citizen detained in Africa". Washington Post. Washington DC. 2011-07-12. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
Meshal says that U.S. officials threatened him with torture, forced disappearance and other serious harm unless he confessed to ties with al-Qaida in Somalia.
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Jonathan S. Landay; Shashank Bengali (2007-03-23). "U.S. won't work to free man held in Ethiopia". Seattle Times. Addis Ababa. Archived from the original on 2020-05-27. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
State Department, FBI and CIA officials appear to disagree on who was to blame for Meshal's secret deportation. Some U.S. officials blame the CIA for not using its influence to prevent the deportation, which the State Department said it had formally protested. The FBI disavows any responsibility. Officials in other agencies are pointing at the Justice Department.
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Jonathon Landay (2007-03-25). "Ethiopia - Imprisoned U.S. citizen says he was in an al Qaida camp". McClatchy News Service. Washington, DC. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
Amir Mohamed Meshal, 24, of Tinton Falls, N.J., made the statements in early January while he was being held in Kenya for illegally entering the country, according to an account provided to McClatchy Newspapers on condition that the source remain anonymous.
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