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Then They Came for the Lawyers: The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2002, page 20
On April 9, 2002, in a chilling first application of the USA-Patriot Act (pushed into law after 9-11), the U.S. government indicted attorney Lynne Stewart along with three Arab men, Mohammed Yousry, Ahmed Abdel Sattar, and Yassir Al-Sirri. Lynne Stewart is the lawyer for Islamic cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who ...
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Political Prisoners,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Attorney Client,
Public Defenders.
Location:
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