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Federal judge allows ‘supermax’ prisoner’s limited religious freedom claims to proceed
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A federal judge last week permitted a Muslim man serving a life sentence in Colorado’s “supermax” prison for terrorism-related offenses to pursue a limited number of religious freedom claims against the government. Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, also known as Abu Hamza, arrived at the U.S. Penitentiary – Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence in 2015. A British citizen, Mostafa was…
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Israel conflict hits home for Colorado legislators on both sides
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Nearly 7,000 miles away from her family in Israel, as missiles rained from the sky and terrorists marched into Israeli towns, Colorado Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet desperately refreshed her phone. Since the Hamas terrorist group attacked Israel on Saturday, Michaelson Jenet has relied on an online blog for updates on her family and homeland. When stress wakes…
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Federal judge sends Muslim inmate’s lawsuit to trial over denial of religious diet
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A jury will decide whether Colorado Department of Corrections officials violated an incarcerated man’s rights by terminating his religious diet when he purchased multiple items that allegedly were in conflict with his meal plan. On Aug. 3, U.S. District Court Senior Judge William J. Martínez agreed a jury could believe Ray Anthony Smith’s claims that prison…
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Appeals court finds no discrimination in Denver prosecutor’s removal of Black woman from jury
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday deemed it a “close” call, but ultimately decided Denver prosecutors had not removed a Black, presumably Muslim woman from a jury in violation of the longstanding prohibition on purposeful discrimination. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals noted that Juror L was a Black woman who wore a head…
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Judge permits Muslim inmate to take religious freedom claim to trial against Weld County sheriff
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Because a jury could find the Weld County Sheriff’s Office did not have a legitimate interest in preventing Muslim detainees in the jail from gathering for weekly prayers unless there was an outside leader present, a federal judge last month permitted an inmate to proceed to trial with his First Amendment claim. U.S. District Court…
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10th Circuit reinstates group prayer lawsuit of 1993 WTC bomber
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The federal appeals court based in Denver has reinstated a Muslim inmate’s religious liberty lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, finding a lower court misunderstood the level of access prison officials were providing to group prayer. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit sided with Ahmad Ajaj, who…
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Federal judge allows Muslim inmate’s claims to proceed based on denial of religious diet
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A Muslim inmate has plausibly alleged that the Colorado Department of Corrections and two food services workers violated his rights by canceling his religious diet, a federal judge decided in allowing the claims of Ray Anthony Smith to proceed. Smith is seeking to force the department to update its food list to reflect items that are…
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In 2-1 decision, 10th Circuit upholds terrorism convictions and foreign surveillance protocols
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It was not a constitutional violation for two men charged with terrorism-related offenses to wait six-and-a-half years before receiving a trial, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Wednesday, while also upholding the government’s surveillance framework for suspected national security threats. In a pair of decisions spanning 280 pages, a panel of the U.S.…
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Otero County Republican Judy Reyher engulfed in controversy after contested House District 47 vacancy appointment
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The aftershocks were still coming days after a Republican vacancy committee picked a replacement for former state Rep. Clarice Navarro, the Pueblo Republican who resigned to take a position with the Trump administration in early November. Judy Reyher, a Swink resident and former Otero County GOP chair, won the appointment to Navarro’s seat on a…
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May: The battles of Britain and Egypt
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Jihadis aspire to ‘cleanse’ the Islamic world and force the West to submit The slaughter of 22 concert-goers in Manchester May 22 was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks. In an internet…
