Court Support for Hassan Ali Mohamud Jami

Friday, April 1st @ 1:30 pm @ Federal Building, 300 S 4th St, Minneapolis

Hassan Ali Mohamud Jami, a member of the defense team of Mohamed Farah – one of the 5 Somali youth to soon go on trial in an ISIS recruitment case, is now himself a target of government attacks. In an outrageous attempt to discredit him and disrupt the defense of Farah, the prosecution is planning to introduce evidence that Jami “is referenced by a co-conspirator apparently preaching about jihad and related topics.”

Mohamud, the first Somali to graduate from a Minnesota law school and the founder and Imam/director of Minnesota Da’wah Institute, also works as an Immigration Law Project Advocate at the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis and is an adjunct professor at the William Mitchell College of Law. He has been an effective spokesman and critic of the harsh repression, infiltration and surveillance of the Somali community by the U.S. government and worked with the Anti-War Committee and other peace groups in organizing the 2008 March on the RNC protest. Mohamud called the government allegations false and said, “it’s all about politics.”