Muslim man spent 15 years in prison after post-9/11 crackdown
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Yassin Aref was a victim of Islamophobia and a controversial arrest by the FBI that led him to 15 years in jail.
Chamchamal, Kurdish region of northern Iraq – For Yassin M Aref, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is a sad reminder of 15 lost years spent in American prisons. Aref, 51, a Kurdish man and former mosque leader at the Masjid As-Salam in Albany, the capital of New York state, was arrested in 2007 on a conspiracy charge brought by the FBI in a “sting operation”. He was accused of aiding “terrorism” based on “secret” evidence. His case drew criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and other critics of post-9/11 counterterrorism policies in the United States.More Related News