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Prosecutors called November 24 "a great day" in America. Attorney Greg Westfall compared it to denying Dred Scott his day in court, rounding up Japanese civilians during WW II, Red Scare witch hunt trials, murdering the Rosenbergs, and other egregious instances of US injustice.
He added that HLF was a faith-based organization of the "wrong faith."
Family members, friends, and numerous supporters were outraged. One observer put it this way:
"Grateful to live in a country where bankers who rape our entire economy receive 100s of billion of dollars in thanks while humanitarians who feed starving children are sent to jail."The ACLU said:
"The government's actions".violated the fundamental rights of American Muslim Charities and has chilled American Muslims' charitable giving in accordance with their faith, seriously undermining American values of due process and commitment to First Amendment freedoms."
British MP George Galloway called the verdict "one of the most monstrous injustices in modern times in America."
HLF President and CEO Shukri Abu-Baker and Chairman Ghassan Elashi got 65 years imprisonment. Volunteer Mufid Abdulqader received 20 years. New Jersey office director Abdulrahman Odeh and California office director Mohammad El-Mezain got 15 years.
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