ASHQAR, ABDELHALEEM - ALEXANDRIA, VA 22310 - HOWARD UNIVERSITY/PROFESSOR - 9/11/2001 $250
10th paragraph into the article: Manhattan federal Judge Denise Cote released 39-year-old Abdelhaleem Ashqar Aug. 21 from federal detention where he had been on a hunger strike for six months after refusing to testify in secret grand jury proceedings investigating alleged money-laundering in the United States by the Gaza-based Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). Ashqar supporters said that although he was not a target of the investigation, he told the grand jury he would rather die than betray “long-held and unshakable religious, political and personal beliefs... and commitments to freedom and democracy in Palestine.” Ashqar had been kept alive by forced feeding since June in the Westchester Medical Center in New York, where his lawyers said his hands had been shackled to his bed to keep him from removing feeding tubes. The lawyers said Judge Cote released him after hearing testimony that further imprisonment would have no effect in compelling Ashqar to testify
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