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ACLU CASE ON BEHALF OF
UNFAIRLY DETAINED MUSLIM MAN
CURRENTLY IN SETTLEMENT TALKS
The ACLU National Office, in conjunction with the state affiliate, initiated a lawsuit last fall on behalf of a Muslim man who was unfairly detained and mistreated at the Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center during March of 2003. The case of Al-Kidd v. Sugrue was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma to vindicate the rights of plaintiff Abdullah al-Kidd following harsh treatment he received while in custody at a facility supervised by defendant Warden John Sugrue.
The lawsuit is currently in settlement talks. This development follows a ruling favorable to the plaintiff by the federal judge in the case.
Al-Kidd, an African-American native of the United States, converted to Islam while he was in college. His parents, siblings, wife and child were all born in the United States. The FBI had contacted him several months prior to his detention in order to investigate a case in which al-Kidd was not a suspect but a potential material witness.
You realize, of course, that since the ACLU launched this suit as a civil rights case, that we -- the taxpayers -- are paying for defense representation.
It's one of the ways the ACLU stays afloat -- bringing civil rights cases. Which the US government pays them to do...
