Ms Lindh died of her injuries in hospital on 11 September, a day after the stabbing.
He has identified himself as John Walker in interviews, but his father's last name is Lindh.
Mr Walker Lindh's lawyers had argued that he never had anything to do with terrorist activities.
Lindh, an American, was tried as a civilian and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
They readily conceded the news value of seeing Walker Lindh's parents and hearing from them for the first time.
But since the murder three years ago of Anna Lindh, the foreign minister, he has had no obvious successor.
In 2003 one of his poems was read at the memorial service of Anna Lindh, the murdered Swedish foreign minister.
On February 19th his foreign minister, Anna Lindh, said that the Social Democrats might decide as early as next year.
The foreign minister, Anna Lindh, the Social Democrats' heir apparent, hugs and kisses the boss of Ericsson, the country's industrial flagship.
Lindh argued that before 2007 Muslim prisoners were allowed to pray together for at least three of Islam's five daily prayers.
CNN: 'American Taliban' wins right to group prayer in prison
The unit Lindh is housed in has 55 cells, and the majority of the prisoners are Muslim, according to court documents.
CNN: 'American Taliban' wins right to group prayer in prison
The judge rejected defence arguments that Mr Walker Lindh was a loyal American, saying "the evidence before the court belies that assumption".
Lindh joined the prayer lawsuit in 2010, three years after being sent to the prison near the border between Indiana and Illinois.
Lindh, who was born in California, converted to Islam as a teenager.
CNN: 'American Taliban' wins right to group prayer in prison
Mr Walker Lindh, accompanied by federal marshals, was driven by motorcade to the courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, at 0700 local time (1400 GMT).
During the court hearing, Judge W Curtis Sewell sided with federal prosecutors who maintained that Mr Walker Lindh posed a threat to the public.
The suit was originally filed in 2009 by two Muslim inmates in the unit, but it got far more attention when Lindh joined the case.
Still haunted by that killing, Swedes are relieved that Anna Lindh's murderer was caught, and that he has now been sentenced, the BBC's Lars Bevanger in Stockholm says.
After the hearing, one of his lawyers, James Brosnahan, accused US Attorney General John Ashcroft of using "inappropriate" language and taking out his frustrations about terrorism on Mr Walker Lindh.
In a written request for Mr Walker Lindh's release, defence lawyers said their client had no previous criminal record, no record of drug or alcohol abuse and no history of violent or dangerous conduct.
The judge ordered an injunction "prohibiting the warden from enforcing the policy against daily congregate prayer for Muslims, including Mr. Lindh, for whom daily congregate prayer is a sincerely held religious belief, " the court order states.
CNN: 'American Taliban' wins right to group prayer in prison
Ken Falk, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which represented Lindh in a lawsuit challenging the prison policy, said he intended to make sure the prison had begun allowing the daily prayers.
Magnus-Stinson found that a prison policy preventing Lindh and the other Muslims in his unit from praying together daily when not locked in their cells violated a 1993 law banning the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest.
Lindh was captured by the Afghan Northern Alliance on November 25, 2001, and imprisoned in a compound in Mazar-e-Sharif, where he was questioned by CIA agent Johnny Michael Spann, who was killed in an uprising at the compound a short time later.
CNN: 'American Taliban' wins right to group prayer in prison
For example, the arrests of John Walker Lindh (a white, middle-class man better known as the 'American Taliban') and Richard Reid (a British citizen of West Indian and European ancestry now serving a life sentence at the Supermax prison in Colorado) confirm that effective law enforcement techniques must rely solely on criminal behavior and not race, religion or nationality in order to ensure our citizens' security.
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