13 February 2008

A Victory for Civil Rights in the UK

5 Muslim students had their convictions for perusing Jihadi websites overturned.

The appeals court declared that, "Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [anti-terrorism law] for a purpose for which it was not intended, .... We do not consider that it was made plain to the jury [in the original trial] ... that they possessed the extremist material for use in the future to incite the commission of terrorist acts. We doubt whether the evidence supported such a case."

It's not in the US, but I'll take it.

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