Friday, January 1, 2010
Volume:
26
Issue:
1
19
Abstract:
On November 20, 2009, Amir Meshal of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, sued in the U.S. District Court for D.C. FBI agents who allegedly illegally detained and mistreated him in Kenya and Ethiopia. His complaint alleges that after he fled hostilities in Somalia in 2006, he was arrested, secretly imprisoned in inhumane conditions and subjected to harsh interrogations by U.S. officials over 30 times in three different countries before ultimately he was released four months later without charge...(more)