Article by Ibrahim Hooper. March 19, 2024
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling allowing CAIR’s lawsuit challenging the federal No Fly List on behalf of Yonas Fikre to move forward over the government’s objection as a “historic milestone for Muslims.”
This case marked the first time that CAIR argued directly before the U.S. Supreme Court. [NOTE: CAIR brought this lawsuit with Brandon Mayfield in 2013 and before the Supreme Court worked with pro bono co-counsel Jenner & Block LLP.]
Yonas Fikre is an American Muslim who was tortured and imprisoned in the United Arab Emirates at the behest of American officials, and then stranded in Sweden because of his status on the No Fly List, after he refused pressure from the FBI to become an informant.
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