Adham Amin Hassoun is a convict formerly incarcerated in the
United States
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as a conspirator of
José Padilla, an American initially held as an enemy combatant for supplying aid to terrorists.
Hassoun, a Lebanese-born
Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
who first moved to the United States in the late 1980s, was first arrested in 2002 for overstaying his
visa
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In August 2007, he was convicted, along with Padilla, of conspiracy and material support charges and sentenced to a prison term of 15 years, 8 months.
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Hassoun had been a computer programmer and resident of ]Broward County, Florida
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. Sofian Abdelaziz, a member of the American Muslim Association of North America, who knew Hassoun from his activity in the Florida Muslim community, made this comment on Hassoun: ''"I would consider him that he's against violence, but he has a strong tongue, you know, he has a strong tongue!"''[
Hassoun was charged in connection with his financing of Padilla's trip to ]Egypt
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.[ Prosecutors alleged that Hassoun set up a local office of the charity Benevolence International, which was used as a front for al Qaeda.][ A 2011 ]NPR
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report claimed he was being held in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit
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When Hassoun finished his sentence, in 2017, as a non-citizen, he would normally have been deported.][ However, since he was stateless, he continued to be imprisoned.][
Hassoun was released on July 22, 2020. He was deported and resettled in Rwanda, whose government agreed to receive him on humanitarian grounds.]
Other indicted conspirators
*Kifah Jayyousi
Kifah Jayyousi, is a Jordanian-born United States citizen, tried and convicted alongside Jose Padilla and Adham Hassoun in 2007 of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim overseas. He was sentenced to a prison term of twelve years and eight months.< ...
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People imprisoned on charges of terrorism
Inmates of ADX Florence
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