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Criminalizing Humanitarian Relief: Are U.S. Material Support for Terrorism Laws Compatible with International Humanitarian Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Justin Fraterman
Justin Fraterman*
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New York office of an international law firm
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 106 , 2012 , pp. 257 - 260
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, 130 S. Ct. 2705 (2010).

2 18 U.S.C. § 2339(a)-(c) (2006); Exec. Order No. 13, 224, 66 Fed. Reg. at 497098 (Sept. 23, 2001).

3 Sridharan, Swetha, Material Support to Terrorism—Consequences for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the United States, Migration Policy Institute (Jan. 2008)Google Scholar, at http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=671.

4 In the Matter of R.K., cited in Human Rights Institute (Georgetown University Law Center), Unin Tended Consequences: Refugee Victims of the War on Terror 15 (2006).

5 United States v. Sabir, 521 F.3d 219, slip op. at 27 (2d Cir. 2011) (suggesting the “medicines” exception does not include medical services); Transcript of Oral Argument, Humanitarian Law Project v. Gonzalez, 380 F.Supp.2d 1134 (2005) (indicating that relief agencies operating in Dto-controlled areas must obtain a Secretary of State waiver to avoid prosecution).

6 Gettleman, Jeffrey, U.S. Delays Somalia Aid, Fearing it it Feeding Terrorists, N.Y. Times, Oct. 1, 2009 Google Scholar.

7 Testimony of Ahilan Aralanathanam before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security of the House Judiciary Committee, May 10, 2005.

8 See Geneva Conventions I-IV of 1949 and the 1978 Protocols thereto.

9 Geneva Conventions I, II, III, IV, art. 1.

10 Commentary IV: Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 15 (Jean S. Pictet ed., 1960).

11 Geneva Conventions I, II, III, IV, art. 3.

12 Geneva Convention I, art. 18.

13 Geneva Convention Ap I, art. 81.

14 A Workshop on Customary International Law and the 1977 Protocols, 2 Am. U.J. Int’l L. & Pol’y 415, 428 (1987)Google Scholar.

15 See Charity and Security Network, Material Support and the Need for a Sensible Humanitarian Exemption, at http://www.charityandsecurity.org/analysis/material_support_law.

16 Statutes of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, preamble, in Handbook of the Interna Tional Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 519 (2008).