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23 Nov 8:15 am
... similarly inspired by threats to their laptops. Thomas M. Cooley 3L Shady Yassin was studying at a
coffee shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week. A would-be robber ... demanded that all the patrons give him their laptops and valuables. That's when Yassin morphed into a coffeehouse superhero. Like former Law Student of the Day, Arizona ... off the laptop-stealing
villain. From the Grand Rapids Press: Suburban Chicago native Yassin -- who said he has no military or
police training -- managed to get a hold ...
24 Mar, 2004 11:28 am
The UN Commission on Human Rights passed a resolution Wednesday condemning Israel for its targeted killing of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin in a pre-dawn air strike in Gaza Monday. The resolution, proposed by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Cuba and Zimbabwe, passed by a
31-2 vote, with the US and Australia voting against it. Israel's Ambassador said that countries are eager to divert
13 Jun, 2005 8:38 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, Sudan's domestic war crimes tribunal is scheduled to hold its first hearings Tuesday in the capital city of Khartoum, according to
Sudanese Justice Minister Ali Mohammed Yassin. Yassin said that over 160 individuals indicted on various war crimes and crimes against humanity that allegedly occurred in the Darfur region of Sudan
would begin appearing
8 Mar, 2007 11:11 pm
I've written a lot about the "Doogie Howser of terrorism cases", the Albany, New York sting prosecution of pizza owner Yassin Aref on charges of providing material support to terrorists, because Terry Kindlon, an excellent criminal defense attorney and frequent
commenter at TalkLeft, ... significant sentence, but 11-years is a whole lot better than 30-years, or even life," says Terry Kindlon, Yassin Aref's attorney. 11 years is no walk in the park, yet but for Terry's exceptional advocacy skills, I'm ...
8 Jul, 2007 11:23 am
... writ of mandamus in the Second Circuit and it was dismissed as premature. In October, 2006, Terry's client in the case, Mr. Yassin, was convicted of 20 out of 30 counts and was sentenced to 15 years. Terry's appellate brief is now almost done ... -- as soon as he can whittle
it down to an appropriate length from its current 215 pages. One of the major points in the Yassin brief is
the illegality of the NSA warrantless wiretaps. In light of the 6th Circuit dismissal, Terry's case may be first in line ...
26 Aug, 2007 6:53 am
The New York Times today reports that the Albany terror trial of Yassin M. Aref may have the best chance of
challenging the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. TalkLeft has been writing about Mr. Aref's case since its ... the Iman. From Terry's initial motion: "The government engaged in
illegal electronic surveillance of thousands of U.S. persons, including Yassin Aref, then instigated a sting
operation to attempt to entrap Mr. Aref into supporting a nonexistent terrorist plot, then dared to claim ...
4 Sep, 2008 8:41 pm
... of Justice has handed down a major judgment in Joined Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P Yassin Abdullah
Kadi and Al Barakaat Foundation v. Council and Commission on the right to have measures adopted by the EC ... infringed by the Council and the Commission when they implemented the UN
Security Council resolutions. The Sanctions Committee of the United Nations placed Yassin Abdullah Kadi, of
Saudi Arabia, and Al Barakaat International Foundation, established in Sweden, on a list of persons and bodies ...
10 Oct, 2008 10:05 am
... Added Note on European Court of Justice, Judgment in Joined Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P, Yassin
Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council and Commission, September 3, 2008 (Yale Journal of International Law ... Economic Affairs of the Swiss Confederation
(SECO) ["Nada-case"] by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and - in an added note - the case regarding Yassin
Abdullah Kadi et al. v. Council and Commission ["Kadi-decision"] by the European Court of Justice. Based on this ...
30 Jun, 2005 8:49 am
[JURIST] Ali Mohammed Osman Yassin, Sudan's justice minister, has rejected calls for the extradition of 10
suspects to face charges for war crimes in Darfur before the the International Criminal Court [official website] in The Hague. Yassin said the men are already on trial in a Sudanese court [JURIST report], where they have pleaded not guilty [JURIST report]. Rights groups have
questioned the
11 Dec, 2006 7:27 am
... possess images of child pornography cannot be subject to enhanced sentencing provisions if he is not a sophisticated user and does not attempt to access those images which are
stored in his cache.[3] Whether Bouchra El-Hor and her husband, Yassin Nassari, can claim the same sort of
thing is unclear. What is clear is that they were arrested earlier this year while trying to enter the United Kingdom from Holland.[4] Mr. Nassari is alleged to "have had material on
how to make homemade rockets and ...
16 Mar, 2007 3:35 pm
A former vice president of Iraq and close associate of Saddam Hussein during the Baath Party reign there, Taha Yassin Ramadan, lost a plea to the Supreme Court on Friday for a delay in his transfer to the new Iraqi government to face execution. Captured by
Kurdistan forces in the summer of 2003, turned over to U.S. forces in Iraq and held by them since, Ramadan has been sentenced to death by hanging for his alleged role in atrocities
during the Hussein regime. He was convicted by the Iraqi ...
20 Mar, 2007 2:00 am
Death penalty: Always unjust. All execution is brutal and unjust. This morning, Saddam Hussein's former vice president -- Taha Yassin Ramadan -- was hanged even though his trial court ordered a life sentence. However, the appellate judges who reviewed the case ordered a
resentencing, saying the original sentence was too lenient. That's right, the United States has been sacrificing the lives and health of thousands of soldiers, spilling the blood of
many more than that, and pouring billions of ...
19 Mar, 2007 10:00 pm
Death penalty: Always unjust. All execution is brutal and unjust. This morning, Saddam Hussein's former vice president -- Taha Yassin Ramadan -- was hanged even though his trial court ordered a life sentence. However, the appellate judges who reviewed the case ordered a
resentencing, saying the original sentence was too lenient. That's right, the United States has been sacrificing the lives and health of thousands of soldiers, spilling the blood of
many more than that, and pouring billions of ...
25 Jun, 2007 10:15 pm
... hanging as the preferred execution method, with three high-level Hussein officials having received death sentences recently. Last January, Hussein's half brother was decapitated
when hanged. Last March, Saddam Hussein's former vice president -- Taha Yassin Ramadan -- was hanged even
though his trial court ordered a life sentence. The appellate judges who reviewed the case ordered a resentencing, saying the original sentence was too lenient, and he was swiftly
hanged thereafter. Iraq can always ...
26 Jun, 2007 2:01 pm
... to detect terrorist groups and prevent them from carrying out attacks. Among the domestic task force's successes are the convictions of Ramzi Yousef and Eyad Mahmoud Ismal for the
1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 2004 arrest of Yassin Muhiddin Aref who laundered money in
connection with a terrorist plot. To effectively combat terrorism overseas, this sort of successful joint task force needs to be fully implemented yet it is nowhere near coming to
fruition. Judicial Watch is a non- ...
10 Jul, 2007 4:34 am
... , "[p]rior to July 2005, we had never had this sort of material submitted to the laboratory before," Claire McGavigan, a scientist at the Forensics Explosives Laboratory, testified
in January.[12] [1] The jury convicted Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, Yassin Omar, and Hussain Osman,
however the panel still must determine the fates of Manfo Asiedu, and Adel Yahya. [2] Alicia Lozano, 4 convicted in failed London attacks, Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2007, available at
http://www.latimes.com/ ...
30 Aug, 2007 9:30 am
Yesterday Melissa Goodman, a staff attorney from our National Security Project, blogged on HuffingtonPost.com about the strange case of Mohammed Hossain and Yassin Aref, two men convicted here in New York of supporting a fake assassination plot concocted by the FBI. In civil
cases against its illegal surveillance program, the government has avoided arguing the legality or constitutionality of the program by saying any discussion of it would compromise
national security (a.k.a. the famous "state ...
29 Dec, 2007 6:41 pm
... men who happen to be Arab immigrants in a bogus money-laundering sting and tear them from their families and send them to prison, as the FBI did earlier this year with two men from
Albany -- Mohammed Hossain, a pizzeria owner, and Yassin Aref, an imam. Snared in the aftermath of Sept. 11
by the hunger for scapegoats, they are now spending years in prison for doing nothing wrong. Their case reminds us, although our neurotic response to the unknown can be funny sometimes,
often our reactions are ...
30 Aug, 2008 5:57 am
Tracking the Terrorists Online, By Yassin Musharbash in Washington, D.C.: "For years, al-Qaida and other
terror groups have set up...
4 Sep, 2008 1:09 am
Today, the European Court of Justice delivered an opinion in the important case of Yassin Abdullah Kadi and
Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission (a summary is
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