$300,000 closer to accountability.Although thousands of Muslim, Arab and South Asian men were arrested, detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: and deported in post- post- word element [L.], after; behind. post- pref. 1. After; later: postpartum. 2. Behind; posterior to: postaxial. 9/11 sweeps, Ehab Elmaghraby has accomplished what none of the others has thus far--winning a $300,000 settlement from the U.S. The Egyptian immigrant was arrested in his Queens apartment three weeks after 9/11 while his Muslim landlord was being investigated for having once taken pilot lessons. Elmaghraby was held in detention The act of keeping back, restraining, or withholding, either accidentally or by design, a person or thing. Detention occurs whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his or her freedom to walk away, or approaches and questions an individual, or stops an for a year, where he was abused before being deported to Egypt. The former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of resident sued the U.S. government for violating his constitutional rights and is the first person to win such a settlement. |
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