Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, popularly known as the ‘Underwear bomber’ had on Christmas Day
2009 attempted to set-off a bomb hidden in his underwear during an Amsterdam to
Detroit flight.
Farouk Abdulmutallab
who serving multiple life sentences in the United States for trying to bomb a
plane has sued the U.S. Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Prisons and
Attorney General Jeff Sessions for denying him free speech and religious
rights.
Abdulmutallab,
who was then 22, was sentenced to life imprisonment and jailed at the United
States Penitentiary-Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado.
But in a suit
filed in a Colorado federal court on Wednesday, the 30-year-old said
authorities in the prison were violating his constitutional rights by not
allowing him to communicate with the outside world or practice his religion as
a Muslim.
The lawsuit
alleged that once Abdulmutallab got to prison, he was immediately placed in
long-term solitary confinement and placed under special administrative measures
(SAMs) that prohibited his communication with most of his family members up
until last year when he was allowed to talk to his sister.
According to
reports, he’s still not allowed to talk to any of his nieces or nephews. The
lawsuit further accused staff at the facility of repeatedly force feeding him
during a hunger strike using “excessively and unnecessarily painful” methods.
It alleged
that white supremacist inmates were also permitted to harass him during prayer
times. “Prisoners retain fundamental constitutional rights to communicate with
others and have family relationships free from undue interference by the
government,” said Gail Johnson, his attorney, in a statement to the New York
Times.
SMH
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