NEW YORK –(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. The American Civil Liberties Union announced a settlement in a major test case challenging the U.S. government’s post-9/11 practice of imprisoning Muslim men as material witnesses without any basis for holding them. As part of the settlement, the federal government offered its regrets and agreed to compensate U.S. citizen Abdullah al-Kidd over his arrest and detention as a material witness in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001.






