Ralph Poynter (R), husband of Lynne Stewart, a 73-year-old former New York lawyer who was convicted in a terrorism case, stands amid activists demanding Stewart's release from prison outside of a U.S. District Court in Manhattan, New York on August 8, 2013. Stewart was seeking to get out of prison because she is dying from cancer, according to a court document filed by her lawyer. A federal jury in New York convicted Stewart in 2005 of helping her client, blind Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, smuggle messages from prison to the Islamic Group in Egypt. In 2010 Stewart was sentenced to 10 years in prison. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)