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20 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 45 (2013)
The Holy Land Foundation Case: The Collapse of American Justice

handle is hein.journals/walee20 and id is 51 raw text is: The Holy Land Foundation Case: The Collapse of American Justice Nancy Hollander* Thank you and it is my pleasure to be here and to speak about the Holy Land case. This is not a terribly uplifting discussion, unfortunately. Maybe together we can right this horrible wrong. This is a tragic but true story about the case against the Holy Land Foundation and five Palestinian-American Muslim men who worked for that organization. It started for me when the Holy Land Foundation was designated as a foreign terrorist organization and a specially designated terrorist organization in 2001.1 And then it became a criminal case against Holy Land and the five men and ended in long jail sentences.2 My client, Shukri Abu Baker, is serving a sixty-five year sentence for providing charity.3 That's what he and his co-defendants were accused of, and that's what they were convicted of providing charity, nothing more. * Ms. Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm of Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward P.A, and an Associate Tenant with Doughty Street Chambers, London, UK. Her practice is largely devoted to representing individuals and organizations accused of crimes, including those involving national security issues. She has also been counsel in numerous civil cases, forfeitures and administrative hearings, and has argued and won a case involving religious freedom in the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Hollander also served as a consultant to the defense in a high profile terrorism case in Ireland, has assisted counsel in other intemational cases and represents two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Ms. Hollander has written extensively and has coordinated and taught training courses for criminal defense lawyers nationally and internationally. She also served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam. In addition to other honors, in 2001, Ms. Hollander was named as one of America's top fifty women litigators by the National Law Journal. In 1992-93, she was the President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and she is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. 1. See Mike Allen & Steven Mufson, U.S. Seizes Assets of 3 Islamic Groups; U.S. Charity Among Institutions Accused ofFunding Hamas, WASH. POST, Dec. 5, 2001, at Al. 2. See Gretel C. Kovach, Five Convicted in Terrorist Financing Trial, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 25, 2008, at Al6. 3. See ASSOCIATED PRESS, 2 Muslim charity founders get 65 years, NBC NEWS (Oct. 18, 2013, 2:33 PM), http://nbcnews.com/id/30970074/#.UmF-V6XU7zl. 45

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