Judge to consider return for woman who joined Daesh

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Hassan Shibly is the lawyer of Hoda Muthana, the Alabama woman who left home to join the Daesh in Syria. (File/AP)
  • The family of 24-year-old Hoda Muthana filed suit last week against the Trump administration
  • They also sought expedited action on her suit because Muthana is now in a refugee camp in Syria

WASHINGTON: A federal judge in Washington has agreed to move quickly on a lawsuit filed by a former Alabama woman who joined the Daesh and wants to return to the United States.
The family of 24-year-old Hoda Muthana filed suit last week against the Trump administration after the government said she wasn’t a citizen and wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US with her 18-month-old son.
Her family sought expedited action on her suit because Muthana is now in a refugee camp in Syria.
Judge Reggie Walton granted that Tuesday and scheduled a hearing for Monday.
The US determined Muthana wasn’t a citizen because her father was a Yemeni diplomat when she was born in New Jersey. But her lawyers say he was no longer a diplomat at the time.

Topics: Daesh