The Holy Land Foundation’s Mufid Abdulqader has been released to a halfway house after spending nearly two decades in a US federal prison.
His case has been highlighted by human rights groups as an example of wrongful imprisonment, linked to a disproportionate and politicized targeting of Muslim charities.
The 64-year-old Mufid Abdulqader was born in 1960, in the town of Silwad which is located in the Ramallah District of the West Bank. At that time, the territory was under the control of Jordan, until the Israeli military illegally occupied it in June of 1967.
Abdulqader holds both Jordanian and American citizenship. He pursued his higher education in the United States, earning his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. ….more
