On Christmas day in 2009, Abdulmutallab attempted to explode a bomb hidden in his underpants, on a flight from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Detroit.<\/p>\n
Consequently, the son of Umaru Abdulmutallab, prominent Nigerian businessman, was handed a life sentence in 2012 and jailed at the US Penitentiary-Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado.<\/p>\n
But in a suit filed on his behalf by Gail Johnson, his attorney, Abdulmutallab alleged that prison officials were violating his rights by holding him in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n
He said his communication with relatives had been restricted and he was force-fed when he went on a hunger strike.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old also claimed that the guards allowed \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d to distract him during prayer times, desecrated his prayer cloth and books.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrisoners retain fundamental constitutional rights to communicate with others and have family relationships free from undue interference by the government,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe restrictions imposed on our client are excessive and unnecessary, and therefore we seek the intervention of the federal court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abdukmutallab prayed that he should be removed from solitary confinement and be allowed regular access to his imam.<\/p>\n
He also 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 20, 2017 NigeriaNews.ca Farouk Abdulmutallab, popularly known as \u201cunderwear bomber\u201d, serving a life sentence in the US has sued the government for \u201cinfringing on his rights and maltreating him\u201d. On Christmas day in 2009, Abdulmutallab attempted to explode a bomb hidden in his underpants, on a flight from Amsterdam in the Netherlands to Detroit. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n