Government Threatens To Designate Charity As “Global Terrorists”

The ACLU of Ohio and several other civil rights lawyers are standing up for a local Muslim charity. In federal court today, the ACLU asked to stop the government from blacklisting an Ohio-based charity-Kind Hearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, Inc,-without due process. The muslim charity is challenging the blacklisting used by the government in designating their organization as a terrorist group. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) froze the group’s assets more than 31 months ago, without notice or a hearing, based simply on the assertion that KindHearts was “under investigation.” OFAC has since threatened to designate KindHearts as a “specially designated global terrorist” based on classified evidence, again without providing KindHearts with a reason or meaningful opportunity to... [read full story]