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USA: No-fly list used by FBI to coerce Muslims into informing, lawsuit claims

23 April 2014

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See the article: No-fly list used by FBI to coerce Muslims into informing, lawsuit claims - Case highlights plight of people wrongfully added to database who face lengthy, secretive process to clear their names (Guardian, link).

And see: Case document - full-text (pdf):

"In retaliation for the exercise of their constitutional rights, the United States government has deprived Plaintiffs Muhammad Tanvir, Jameel Algibhah, Naveed Shinwari and Awais Sajjad of their right to travel freely and wrongly stigmatized them without justification and without due process of law by placing them on the No Fly List.

2. The No Fly List is supposed to be limited to individuals who are determined to be such significant threats to aviation safety that it is too dangerous to allow them on any commercial flight to, from or over the United States regardless of the extent of preboarding searches.

3. Instead, shielded from public and, to a large extent, judicial scrutiny, and lacking effective controls and supervision, the No Fly List has swelled to approximately 21,000 names as of February 2012, including approximately 500 United States citizens and an unknown number of lawful permanent residents. On information and belief, the number of people on the No Fly List is even larger today.

4. Plaintiffs are among the many innocent people who find themselves swept up in the United States government’s secretive watch list dragnet. Defendants have used the No Fly List to punish and retaliate against Plaintiffs for exercising their constitutional rights. Plaintiffs declined to act as informants for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) and to spy on their own American Muslim communities and other innocent people.

5. Inclusion on the No Fly List severely burdens Plaintiffs and significantly interferes with their constitutional right to travel freely."

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