ICE detains Sacramento refugee cleared of terror charges
After a judge dismissed dubious charges of terror-linked murder against an Iraqi refugee, lawyers say he faces deportation for the same accusations. Author: Brandon Rittiman Updated: 5:54 PM PDT April 22, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif After spending more than two and a half years in Sacramento County Jail for murder, a federal judge says he couldn’t have committed, Uber driver and Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen was arrested by ICE agents just as he was set to be freed.
Ameen is currently being held at an ICE facility in Bakersfield, according to his lawyers, awaiting an immigration hearing on the same accusations he’d just been cleared of.
Refugee in Sacramento won t be extradited to Iraq for alleged ISIS killing
“The evidence strongly supports that Ameen never left Turkey in June 2014, and the record before the court, taken in its entirety, does not establish probable cause Author: Staff (ABC10) Updated: 2:48 PM PDT April 21, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A federal judge in Sacramento has declined to extradite Omar Ameen back to Iraq for the alleged 2014 murder of a police officer in his hometown of Rawah, Iraq.
In the conclusion to his ruling, Federal Judge Edmund Brennan wrote that “the evidence strongly supports that Ameen never left Turkey in June 2014, and the record before the court, taken in its entirety, does not establish probable cause that he was responsible” for the officer’s murder. Ameen s attorneys have vigorously argued that point. The victim s parents also believe Ameen is innocent, and even withdrew the complaint filed against him and have asked that the mu