In late February, U.S. District Judge William J. Martini found that the New York Police Department hadn’t violated the rights of the New Jersey-based plaintiffs in Hassan v. City of New York, a...
The city has disbanded an New York City Police Department surveillance division created to spy on Muslim communities. The Demographics Unit kept tabs on Muslims by having plainclothes officers...
Awais Sajjad, a lawful permanent U.S. resident living in the New York area, learned he was on the no-fly list in September 2012 after he tried to board a flight to Pakistan at John F. Kennedy...
The FBI has used the No Fly List to coerce American Muslims into spying on their community. In mid-April, after an eight-year, "Kafkaesque" ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official...
" Jameel Algibhah lives in the Bronx, but his wife and three daughters are in Yemen. He has not been able to see them for seven years. Awais Sajjad lives in New Jersey, but his grandmother, who...
"Responding to a lawsuit alleging unlawful and unconstitutional police surveillance of Muslim communities, lawyers under New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have doubled down on the arguments of his...
"NEW YORK — Newly filed court papers show that the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is supporting the New York Police Department's discriminatory surveillance of Muslim communities...
" Civil rights advocates say the de Blasio administration appears to be supporting the NYPD's controversial surveillance of Muslim communities despite earlier attempts to distance itself from...
"The de Blasio administration filed the brief after two groups appealed a judge’s decision to toss a suit alleging the NYPD illegally spied on people at mosques, restaurants and school in...
"Civil rights advocates on Tuesday accused New York City authorities of continuing to support discriminatory surveillance of Muslim communities by police. ..." Read the full piece here .
