Muhammad Salah Sent to Prison, Again

Nov. 1, 2007 - Mohamed Salah said goodbye to his family and friends as he reported to the federal prison to start serving time for perjury charges. Mr. Salah is a Chicago based Muslim community-activist and businessman who was acquitted in February by a federal jury of charges that he conspired to support Hamas. However, he was convicted of lying in a civil lawsuit regarding his relationship with Hamas, a Palestinian resistance group that won overwhelming majority of seats to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006 elections. Judge Amy St. Eve sentenced Salah to 21 months in prison. Salah has never been charged for terrorism but was designated a terrorist by a presidential order. Chicago’s Jewish Community Relations Council in a statement welcomed the prison sentence of Mohamed Salah. The indictment against Salah was originally announced at a news conference with then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who called it a major step in the war on terrorism. Salah has already served a 4-year prison sentence by a secret military court in Israel for aiding Hamas.

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Muhammad Salah Sent to Prison, Again

Muhammad Salah Sent to Prison, Again