SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Utah Muslim leader whose lawyers said he was wrongly placed on a government no-fly list and temporarily blocked from leaving Kenya with his family last year.
U.S. District Judge Dee Benson wrote Monday that the lengthy screening process Imam Yussuf Abdi has undergone on flights since the June 2017 trip home from Kenya is inconvenient but not unconstitutional.
His lawyer Gadeir Abbas tells The Salt Lake Tribune that he believes Abdi was allowed to come home because of the case filed shortly after Abdi was blocked from boarding in Kenya June 2017. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah also intervened.
Abdi is a U.S. citizen and imam of Salt Lake City’s Madina Masjid Islamic Center.
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