Washington - A human rights organization, the Humanitarian Law Project, filed suit on behalf of individuals associated with two designated terror groups, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) reports the Christian Science Monitor. Another Kurdish group PJAK also filed a lawsuit.
Individuals connected to these two groups are seeking to advance human rights and peacemaking efforts on behalf of the designated terror groups. The suit says they could be charged with a violation of the material support statute even though they intend to support only lawful and nonviolent activities related to the PKK and LTTE.
A federal judge and the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed that three provisions within the law were unconstitutionally vague. Those provisions made it a crime to provide "training," "expert advice or assistance ... derived from ... specialized knowledge," and "service" to a designated terror group. The court found that the law potentially covered a broad spectrum of legal activities protected by the First Amendment.
Next to the lawsuit of the PKK and the LTTE, the Iranian Kurdish group PJAK (Party for Free Life in Kurdistan) also plans to file a lawsuit on the 7th of October to challenge the US government’s terrorist designation policies reports Kurdmedia.com. According to the PJAK the decision was unlawful (Photo: Rudaw.net).
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