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United Arab Emirates

Rihanna Asked to Leave Mosque in Abu Dhabi

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October 21, 2013   Rihanna was asked to leave the site of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi after posing for photographs there over the weekend that the shrine’s overseers said had violated the “sanctity” of the site. In photos that Rihanna posted on her Instagram and Twitter accounts, she is seen posing at the mosque site, in the United Arab Emirates … [Read more...] about Rihanna Asked to Leave Mosque in Abu Dhabi

Ore. Muslim sues FBI, claims torture

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An American Muslim who says he was beaten with batons by prison interrogators while held in solitary confinement overseas for more than three months has sued the FBI and State Department, claiming the torture was done at their behest. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oregon seeks $30 million and several injunctions against the U.S. … [Read more...] about Ore. Muslim sues FBI, claims torture

CAIR Seeks Probe of Whether FBI Sought Torture of U.S. Muslim

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division to investigate whether an American Muslim citizen detained last year in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was tortured at the behest of the FBI. In its letter to the DOJ, CAIR cites an exclusive report by Mother Jones magazine about the case of Yonas … [Read more...] about CAIR Seeks Probe of Whether FBI Sought Torture of U.S. Muslim

American Muslim blames the FBI, saying he was tortured at their behest in United Arab Emirates

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PORTLAND, Ore. — His interrogators usually came in the morning. Peeking under a blindfold in a cold concrete cell, Yonas Fikre says he caught only glimpses of their shoes. They beat the soles of his feet with hoses and sticks, asking him about his Portland, Ore., mosque and its imam. Each day, the men questioning him in a United Arab Emirates prison told the 33-year-old … [Read more...] about American Muslim blames the FBI, saying he was tortured at their behest in United Arab Emirates