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Holder v Humanitarian Law Project

Categories: Civil/Human Rights,Supreme Court/courts,Turkey,United Nations

http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/08-1498

6-3 decision of the Supreme Court that upholds a U.S. law that forbids even nonviolent forms of assistance to groups labeled as terrorist organizations.   The aid groups that challenged the law had trained a Kurdish group in Turkey on bringing human rights complaints to the United Nations.  From Findlaw.com