02/29/12: Bloomberg reports that Lynne F. Stewart, the lawyer imprisoned for helping an incarcerated Egyptian cleric pass messages to his terrorist followers, claims her 10-year sentence is punishment for exercising her free speech rights. The attorney was found guilty by a jury in 2005 of helping her former client, the blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, smuggle messages out of a high-security prison after he was convicted in 1995 of plotting to blow up the United Nations, an FBI building, two tunnels and a bridge in New York. After prosecutors complained that Stewart’s initial sentence of 28 months in prison was too lenient, she was re- sentenced to 10 years.
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