BEVERLY HILLS, October 20, (THEWILL) – Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian suicide bomber, serving a life sentence in the US has sued the government for “infringing on his rights and maltreating him”.
THEWILL recalls that Abdulmutallab, popularly known as ‘underwear bomber’, attempted to explode a bomb hidden in his underpants, on a flight from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Detroit on Christmas day in 2009.
Consequently, he was handed a life sentence in 2012 and jailed at the US Penitentiary-Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado.
But in a suit filed on his behalf by Gail Johnson, his attorney, the 30-year-old alleged that prison officials were violating his rights by holding him in solitary confinement.
He said his communication with relatives had been restricted adding that he was force-fed when he went on a hunger strike.
Abdulmutallab also claimed that the guards allowed “white supremacists” to distract him during prayer times adding that his prayer cloth and books were often desecrated.
“Prisoners retain fundamental constitutional rights to communicate with others and have family relationships free from undue interference by the government,” Johnson said.
“The restrictions imposed on our client are excessive and unnecessary, and therefore we seek the intervention of the federal court.”
Abdukmutallab prayed for a halt on all infringement on his rights and that he should be regularly provided with halal food in accordance with his held religious beliefs.
He also prayed that he should be removed from solitary confinement and be allowed regular access to his imam.
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