An attorney for Arab, South Asian and Muslim non-citizen men swept up in the post-9/11 dragnet and held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) pressed a federal appeals court Thursday to reinstate claims against former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Rachel Meeropol, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Ashcroft’s directive that persons of interest detained in the 9/11 terror investigation be subject to maximum pressure to cooperate, leading to terrible conditions and abuse at the detention center in 2001 and 2002 (See Plaintiffs’ Brief).
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