Ali Al-Timimi told a group of Muslim men that they should "repent," leave the country and "join the mujahideen" in the days after the 9/11 attacks. He was convicted on 10 charges and sentenced to life ...

A federal appeals court has thrown out all remaining criminal convictions of an Islamic lecturer from northern Virginia who served about 15 years of a life sentence for soliciting treason by ...

In the annals of true-but-irrelevant statements, a snippet from a recent Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision deserves an honored place. “The First Amendment’s protection does not depend on the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge has overturned a conviction carrying a life sentence for an Islamic scholar from Virginia who was found guilty of soliciting treason after the Sept. 11 attacks for ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) —The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that the First Amendment protects the words of a Muslim scholar who encouraged his followers to engage in jihad following 9/11. A jury in 2005 found ...

An excerpt from today's long opinion in U.S. v. Al-Timimi, by Fourth Circuit Judge James Wynn, joined by Judges Stephanie Thacker and Pamela Harris: Ali Al-Timimi was convicted based entirely on words ...

A Virginia man imprisoned in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for encouraging young Muslim men to travel to the Middle East and defend Afghanistan had his final convictions overturned ...