The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control subpoenas sent to CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin over her trip to Cuba “performative and politically-motivated.”
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In a statement, Washington, D.C., based CAIR said:
“Weaponizing the Treasury Department to target Americans for exercising their constitutional right to support human rights is unacceptable.
“We strongly condemn this performative and politically-motivated targeting of human rights activist Medea Benjamin for daring to express opposition to the blockade of essential aid and goods to an entire population.
“Every American who believes in the rule of law and human rights should stand in solidarity with Medea and demand that the Treasury Department drop its McCarthyite witch hunt.”