Abdulmutallab umar Sues U.S. Justice Department Over Infringement On Rights

Umar Abdulmutallab has sued the U.S. Justice Department for denying his free speech and religious rights.

Abdul mural lab is serving life sentences for trying to set off a bomb in his underwear on a plane on Christmas Day in 2009.

He received multiple life sentences after the attempted attack on the Amsterdam to Detroit flight, which he called part of his “religious duty” as a Muslim to wage jihad against the United States.

In a lawsuit filed in a Colorado Federal Court, he said authorities in the federal maximum security prison where he is being held were violating his constitutional rights by not allowing him to communicate with the outside world or practice his religion as a Muslim, court documents showed.

Abdul mural lab , 30, was being held in long-term solitary confinement, the lawsuit said. He accused staff at the United States penitentiary  administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado of repeatedly force feeding him during a hunger strike using “excessively and unnecessarily painful” methods.

Abdul mural lab also asserted the Justice Department went too far in restricting his communication, including not allowing him to talk to his nieces and nephews since his solitary confinement was based on a special administrative measures imposed on national security grounds.