Saturday, February 27, 2010

Drawing the Line on Support for Terrorism

Laws defining material support for terrorism are impossibly broad. Just ask the Humanitarian Law Project, a nonprofit accused of material support for terrorism because it gave legal advice to the PKK on how to present its human rights grievances against Turkey. The PKK is a Kurdish separatist group listed as a terrorist organization.

The Humanitarian Law Project is a nonprofit organization whose mission is "
protecting human rights and promoting the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law."

Perhaps this is taking the definition of terrorism a bit too far.

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