Supreme Court case puts law to test
(NEWSER) - A USC professor and human rights activist heads to the Supreme Court next week to fight terror charges for supporting Turkey's Kurdish minority. Ralph Fertig, 79, is a self-described pacifist who says he counseled local leaders on how to peacefully pursue their cause. Those leaders, however, may have been members of the Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, which the US deems a terrorist threat. Congress expanded the anti-terror law In 1996 to allow sentences of up to 15 years for providing "expert advice" to a terrorist group. More»
